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The Lanka Decorative Arts is a society for the study and appreciation of the decorative arts of Sri Lanka . I wanted to start an interest group of like-minded people who would participate and attend lectures and workshops for discussion, and dissemination of various aspects of the decorative arts of the island, from all historical periods. Decorative arts is not an isolated study, it is an interdisciplinary study that brings together various disciplines and draws from art and art history, history, social history, material culture, design and design history, archeology, anthropology and architecture |
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What are the decorative arts? |
Earlier called the Minor Arts or Applied Arts, the Decorative Arts is a widely used term to cover a large and varied body of objects falling under the categories of furniture, metalwork, ceramic, pottery, glass, textile, costume, jewelry, musical instruments, tools, toys, transport, folk art, woodwork, ivory, horn, bone, and other miscellaneous categories. Mostly functional although some non-functional objects are included, the decorative arts are different to the fine arts, which are non-functional - painting, sculpture, drawing and photography.. |
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| Maldives 2020 ICH conference and presentations | |
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Tradition/Transformation? Craft, Practise and Discourse |
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TRADITION OR TRANS/FORMATION? CRAFT, PRACTICE AND DISCOURSE. |
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International Conference on The Kitchen
Culinary Ethnology in Sri Lanka |
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LDA Conference 2016 – 4th to 7th August |
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