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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Greenhalgh, Paul, 1955- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts [2022]
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  • 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