Pottery is the one industry in ancient Athens of which we have some detailed knowledge. In Potter and Patron in Classical Athens, originally published in 1972, Professor Webster examines the workshops, the painted pots and their purchasers over the...Loe edasi...
This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery....Loe edasi...
This book represents the first book-length, critical study of the art of Emile Gallé. It thus promises not only to revolutionize our understanding of his work but also to reframe the study of Art Nouveau by relocating the movement within the deeply...Loe edasi...
Ceramics and Modernity in Japan offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and preservation of ceramics during Japans most dramatic period of modernization, in the Meiji to mid-Showa eras....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2015, Kirjastus: Left Coast Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781315422572)
This volume reevaluates the role and social significance of plain pottery traditions in a range of early complex societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Apr-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199739318)
Medusas Gaze provides the first dedicated account of the origins and extraordinary survival of an exquisite agate bowl from ancient Alexandria to the modern day as it passed through the hands of some of historys most influentional, and colorful, c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Aug-2011, Kirjastus: Left Coast Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781315432298)
The blue and white porcelain exported by China in the 18th and early 19th centuries is an important category of artifacts and antiques. This illustrated guide to Chinese export porcelain offers an overview and identification and context information...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2010, Kirjastus: Left Coast Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781315432373)
A long overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a tr...Loe edasi...
Contains 17 articles that focus primarily on enamel, the brilliant and colourful art form for which the Byzantines were famous throughout the medieval world. This book includes sculpture and glyptics. It also examines works which have retained the f...Loe edasi...
Compares text/image interaction as manifested in emblem books (and related forms) and the modern bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip. This study examines the ways in which emblems - and their modern counterparts - interact with the surrou...Loe edasi...
This is the first comprehensive publication for thirty years on Blanc de Chine, a pure ivory-white porcelain made in the Dehua kilns of Fujian, a province of Southern China. Contains a catalogue of the important Hickley Collection in Singapore....Loe edasi...
This engaging cultural history traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, showing its journey from miraculous wonder to commonplace object....Loe edasi...
The Red and the Black covers the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood today. It also covers a hitherto nelgected area: the history of the collecting of Greek pottery....Loe edasi...
