Ceramic art and civilisation
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 millenia. Indeed, the history...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
[2022]
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991005485049708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue : a history in shards
- What ceramic is
- The value of the Greek potter
- Rome and the arrival of the medieval world
- Renaissances of tin
- The enlightened reign of white
- The natural and the individual : lead, slip, stone, salt
- The acceleration of style and the arrival of the modern
- The studio arrives
- The creative explosion
- Postscript : Attica to California
