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Issue 103, Spring 2003
Regular columns: Visual Arts/North Visual Arts/South Film and Television Slave to the Machine Fifth column Update
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Cover image: from Sugar-coated by Gemma Browne (see Reviews below)
Theme: Material Culture
Material culture and the object Stuff: here Paul Caffrey sets the scene for this issue's theme, material culture. Irish material culture: the shape of the field How can a study of material culture help us understand present and past? Paul Caffrey looks at the evidence closest to home. 'Lasting but a day':printed ephemera as material culture Sometimes a bus ticket is more than it seems. Linda King explains. Catholicism and material culture in Ireland 1840 - 1880 Ireland changed utterly in the nineteenth century. Some of those changes can be traced through religious material culture. Lisa Godson illuminates. The problem of things There's stuff everywhere. What is an artist to do with it? Mick Wilson takes up the story. Technology and material culture: or the art of work in the age of mechanical dysfunction Things can be tricky, and they can say a lot about us, as Sorcha O'Brien explains.
Material culture and the object Stuff: here Paul Caffrey sets the scene for this issue's theme, material culture.
Irish material culture: the shape of the field How can a study of material culture help us understand present and past? Paul Caffrey looks at the evidence closest to home.
'Lasting but a day':printed ephemera as material culture Sometimes a bus ticket is more than it seems. Linda King explains.
Catholicism and material culture in Ireland 1840 - 1880 Ireland changed utterly in the nineteenth century. Some of those changes can be traced through religious material culture. Lisa Godson illuminates. The problem of things There's stuff everywhere. What is an artist to do with it? Mick Wilson takes up the story.
Technology and material culture: or the art of work in the age of mechanical dysfunction Things can be tricky, and they can say a lot about us, as Sorcha O'Brien explains.
Feature
Life is what you make of it This editorial is the third of the new series of Critic's Bursary articles by David Blamey and Paul O'Neill. The Bursary is funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaion and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Gemma Browne: Sugar-coated
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