Greenhalgh Paul (University Of East Anglia Uk)
Greenhalgh Paul (University Of East Anglia Uk) - Ceramic Art And Civilisation - Hardcover
Greenhalgh Paul (University Of East Anglia Uk) - Ceramic Art And Civilisation - Hardcover
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Description: " Full of surprises and evocative." The Spectator " Passionately written." Apollo " An extraordinary accomplishment." Edmund de Waal " Monumental." Times Literary Supplement" An epic reshaping of ceramic art." Crafts " An important book." The Arts Society Magazine In his major new history Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology pottery has underpinned domesticity business religion recreation architecture and art for millennia. Indeed the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society. This fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Romans and the medieval world; Islamic ceramic cultures and their influence on the Italian Renaissance; Chinese and European porcelain production; modernity and Art Nouveau; the rise of the studio potter Art Deco International Style and Mid - Century Modern and finally the contemporary explosion of ceramic making and the postmodern potter. Interwoven in this journey through time and place is the story of the pots themselves the culture of the ceramics and their character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually every country and historical period and have worked as a commodity servicing every social class. They are omnipresent: a ubiquitous art. Ceramic culture is a clear unique definable thing and has an internal logic that holds it together through millennia. Hence ceramics is the most peculiar and extraordinary of all the arts. At once cheap expensive elite plebeian high - tech low - tech exotic eccentric comic tragic spiritual and secular it has revealed itself to be as fluid as the mud it is made from. Ceramics are the very stuff of how civilized life was and is led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects.
Title: Ceramic Art And Civilisation
Author(s): Greenhalgh Paul (University Of East Anglia Uk)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781474239707
Pages: 512 Pages, 409 Colour Illus
Publication Date: 3/11/2021
Category: Ceramic Arts, Pottery, Glass
Description: " Full of surprises and evocative." The Spectator " Passionately written." Apollo " An extraordinary accomplishment." Edmund de Waal " Monumental." Times Literary Supplement" An epic reshaping of ceramic art." Crafts " An important book." The Arts Society Magazine In his major new history Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology pottery has underpinned domesticity business religion recreation architecture and art for millennia. Indeed the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society. This fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Romans and the medieval world; Islamic ceramic cultures and their influence on the Italian Renaissance; Chinese and European porcelain production; modernity and Art Nouveau; the rise of the studio potter Art Deco International Style and Mid - Century Modern and finally the contemporary explosion of ceramic making and the postmodern potter. Interwoven in this journey through time and place is the story of the pots themselves the culture of the ceramics and their character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually every country and historical period and have worked as a commodity servicing every social class. They are omnipresent: a ubiquitous art. Ceramic culture is a clear unique definable thing and has an internal logic that holds it together through millennia. Hence ceramics is the most peculiar and extraordinary of all the arts. At once cheap expensive elite plebeian high - tech low - tech exotic eccentric comic tragic spiritual and secular it has revealed itself to be as fluid as the mud it is made from. Ceramics are the very stuff of how civilized life was and is led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects.
Title: Ceramic Art And Civilisation
Author(s): Greenhalgh Paul (University Of East Anglia Uk)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781474239707
Pages: 512 Pages, 409 Colour Illus
Publication Date: 3/11/2021
Category: Ceramic Arts, Pottery, Glass
