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Accession 22057 ISBN — Publisher University of Technology Sydney
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Reconsiders the role of the Italian-born entrepreneur, tastemaker and cultural broker with a focus on his commissioning of artist-designed textile prints from 1945 to 1970. As well as being a design history, it provides a wider cultural study of the agency of European migrants and their impact on the post-war Australian textile and fashion industries. This historical study of Alcorso’s life, family background, international outlook and connections of his Australian-based businesses Silk & Textile Printers (STP) and Universal Textiles Australia (UTA), provide insights into the workings of a local manufacturing industry that had largely vanished by the end of the twentieth century. […] New findings are presented concerning the inter-relationship of artists and designers who created textile prints, workers who printed fabrics and design intermediaries involved in the manufacture and distribution of fabric. Considerable attention is paid to fashions and furnishings sold in retail chain and department stores in Australia and overseas, presenting new findings on Australian post-war consumption. It is argued here that Alcorso’s contribution to Australian textile culture in relation to design commissions and textile manufacturing was more expansive than previous writing about him suggests. --From abstract.

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