The Australian Object: Making Material Histories
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2026
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- Title
- The Australian Object: Making Material Histories
- Author
- Molly Duggins
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1350507830
- ISBN 13
- 9781350507838
- Item weight
- 804 grams
Featuring essays and object case studies by leading and emerging art historians, artists, curators, historians and anthropologists, The Australian Object offers a material intervention into Australian art and cultural histories by highlighting objects that expand definitions of art, nationhood and identity. It employs an object-led approach that combines art history’s attentiveness to form and meaning with material culture’s concern for use, materials and patterns of movement, incorporating methodologies from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge systems, art-making, museology, post- and de-colonialism, ecology, design and theology. Focusing on the useful, mobile and multi-sensory aspects of objects, contributors follow their trajectories across cultures, times and places, and through international networks of trade and migration, connecting Australia with China, Vietnam, Iran, England, France and the USA.
The book is divided into five thematic sections: Living Objects, Collecting Objects, Migrating Objects, Monumental Objects and Immaterial Objects. Rather than chronological or geographical groupings, these sections articulate the shared material qualities of objects and their place in a network of makers and users. Furniture, ceramics, photo-montage, signage and boardgames are newly examined as material agents shaping social, cultural, political and religious life in Australia and beyond. Accordingly, the very term 'Australian object’ is called into question as writers propose divergent frameworks that emphasise connection and interchange, bringing to light the material culture that Australia has shaped, denied and inspired.
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About the Author
Mark De Vitis is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on art and design histories, with a particular interest in object heritages and migrations. His research has been supported through fellowships at the Cité internationale des arts and the Getty and Newberry libraries.
Georgina Cole is Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia. She specializes in eighteenth-century art and intellectual history, with a particular interest in the senses. Her research has been supported with fellowships and grants from the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
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