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The Pilgrim Art

Author : Robert Finlay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520945387
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Pilgrim Art written by Robert Finlay and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it was used to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, Persia, and Iraq. Spanish galleons delivered porcelain to Peru and Mexico while aristocrats in Europe ordered tableware from Canton. The book tells the fascinating story of how porcelain became a vehicle for the transmission and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs across vast distances—from Japan and Java to Egypt and England. It not only illustrates how porcelain influenced local artistic traditions but also shows how it became deeply intertwined with religion, economics, politics, and social identity. Bringing together many strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes, this is a history of cross-cultural exchange focused on an exceptional commodity that illuminates the emergence of what is arguably the first genuinely global culture.

The City of Blue and White

Author : Anne Gerritsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499953
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The City of Blue and White written by Anne Gerritsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the ultimate global commodity, blue and white porcelain, from kiln to consumers across the globe.

The Porcelain Thief

Author : Huan Hsu
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307986314
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Porcelain Thief written by Huan Hsu and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moves to China to work in his uncle’s semiconductor chip business. Once there, a conversation with his grandmother, his last living link to dynastic China, ignites a desire to learn more about not only his lost ancestral heirlooms but also porcelain itself. Mastering the language enough to venture into the countryside, Hsu sets out to separate the layers of fact and fiction that have obscured both China and his heritage and finally complete his family’s long march back home. Melding memoir, travelogue, and social and political history, The Porcelain Thief offers an intimate and unforgettable way to understand the complicated events that have defined China over the past two hundred years and provides a revealing, lively perspective on contemporary Chinese society from the point of view of a Chinese American coming to terms with his hyphenated identity.

Adelaide Alsop Robineau

Author : Peg Weiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Adelaide Alsop Robineau written by Peg Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and works in porcelain of a noteworthy American ceramicist, Adelaide Alsop Robineau.

The Porcelain Tower, Or, Nine Stories of China

Author : Thomas Henry Sealy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Porcelain Tower, Or, Nine Stories of China written by Thomas Henry Sealy and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories are uninformed, racist in nature, and accompanied by racist caricatures.

Blue & White

Author : John Carswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714124490
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Blue & White written by John Carswell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book traces the variety of paths followed by Chinese blue and white porcelain as it has travelled around the world. The illustrations come from museums and private collections worldwide.

Old Chinese Porcelain - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author : Egan Mew
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
ISBN 13 : 9781298359827
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Old Chinese Porcelain - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Egan Mew and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Porcelain

Author : Suzanne L. Marchand
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204233
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Porcelain written by Suzanne L. Marchand and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China—but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony’s revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain’s ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be rivaled by private entrepreneurs, eager to make not art but profits. As porcelain’s uses multiplied and its price plummeted, it lost much of its identity as aristocratic ornament, instead taking on a vast number of banal, yet even more culturally significant, roles. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became essential to bourgeois dining, and also acquired new functions in insulator tubes, shell casings, and teeth. Weaving together the experiences of entrepreneurs and artisans, state bureaucrats and female consumers, chemists and peddlers, Porcelain traces the remarkable story of “white gold” from its origins as a princely luxury item to its fate in Germany’s cataclysmic twentieth century. For three hundred years, porcelain firms have come and gone, but the industry itself, at least until very recently, has endured. After Augustus, porcelain became a quintessentially German commodity, integral to provincial pride, artisanal industrial production, and a familial sense of home. Telling the story of porcelain’s transformation from coveted luxury to household necessity and flea market staple, Porcelain offers a fascinating alternative history of art, business, taste, and consumption in Central Europe.

The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes

Author : Colin Sheaf
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes written by Colin Sheaf and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blanc de Chine

Author : Robert H. Blumenfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1580082939
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Blanc de Chine written by Robert H. Blumenfield and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the mid-thirteenth century, the kilns of Dehua, capital of the Fujian Province in southeast China, began producing brilliant white porcelain pieces, the likes of which had never been seen before. Today, blanc de Chine pieces are some of the most sought-after collectibles in the world of Chinese art, their aesthetic appeal lying in their stark shapes and color, and their impossibly delicate, glasslike glaze. "Blanc De Chine" weaves together the most engaging, authoritative story of this precious art ever told. For the connoisseur, author Robert Blumenfield presents dazzling photographs and important research findings from around the world. For the novice collector, he details the differences between true blanc de Chine and other, less distinguished white wares. For the Asian art enthusiast, he provides a rich historical account of the evolution of the form, and the character and technical mastery that distinguish its finest pieces. A major contribution to the field, "Blanc De Chine" will be treasured by all who appreciate the breathtaking beauty and fascinating tradition of this exquisite art.

Old Limoges

Author : Barbara Wood
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN 13 : 9780764323119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Old Limoges written by Barbara Wood and published by Schiffer Book for Collectors. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most significant contributions of original scholarship on French ceramics in a generation, this study of first-production Haviland design and dcor combines a carefully researched text with 450 illustrations, including full-color photographs of previously unidentifiable porcelains, as well as many unpublished documents from archives in France and America. This beautiful volume is an indispensable reference. Readers will find their views of nineteenth-century European porcelains enhanced and transformed.

Collectors, Collections and Museums

Author : Stacey Pierson
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105380
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Collectors, Collections and Museums written by Stacey Pierson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comprehensive study of the collecting, consumption and display of Chinese porcelain in Britain from the 16th to the 20th century, as well as the impact of this activity on British culture. Beginning with the early porcelains acquired as objects of exotica and vessels for the consumption of tea and coffee, followed by porcelains for display in the country house interior, the first part of this book reveals the role of porcelain in Britain's developing economic relations with China and the impact of this material on both daily life and interior design. The subsequent diplomatic and political conflicts of the 18th and 19th centuries provide a framework for an examination of British consumption of Chinese porcelain as both spoils of war and iconic representations of China, material which helped to shape and influence British perceptions of China. The final section demonstrates how these perceptions of China and its porcelain began to change significantly in the 20th century with porcelains acquired as works of art and displayed publicly in museums. Collectors in Britain began to specialise in this area and actively invented a 'field' of Chinese ceramics that was promulgated by learned societies and culminated in the founding of a museum of Chinese ceramics in London by one of the foremost British collectors, Sir Percival David, who donated his world class collection to the University of London in 1950.

Chinese Porcelain

Author : Chen Kelun
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
ISBN 13 : 9781592650125
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Porcelain written by Chen Kelun and published by LONG RIVER PRESS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated guide to the major forms of Chinese porcelain art from prehistory to the Qing Dynasty.

Ming

Author : Eva Ströber
Publisher : Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
ISBN 13 : 9783897903890
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Ming written by Eva Ströber and published by Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text unveils the Ming myth by presenting the internationally recognised Ming collection at the Ceramics Museum Princessehof. It comprises spectacular items of the highest quality, which were created exclusively for the Chinese imperial court.

Ten Thousand Years of Pottery

Author : Emmanuel Cooper
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812235548
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Ten Thousand Years of Pottery written by Emmanuel Cooper and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The finest history of pottery available, this book offers an inspirational journey through one of the oldest and most widespread of human activities.

Porcelain on Steel

Author : Donna M. McAleer
Publisher : Fortis
ISBN 13 : 9780984551118
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Porcelain on Steel written by Donna M. McAleer and published by Fortis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of fourteen women who graduated from West Point and served in the Army, highlighting their character, accomplishments, leadership, ordeals and sacrifices.

Live Form

Author : Jenni Sorkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630325X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Live Form written by Jenni Sorkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those for other creative mediums. Live Form shines new light on the relation of ceramics to the artistic avant-garde by looking at the central role of women in the field: potters who popularized ceramics as they worked with or taught male counterparts like John Cage, Peter Voulkos, and Ken Price. Sorkin focuses on three Americans who promoted ceramics as an advanced artistic medium: Marguerite Wildenhain, a Bauhaus-trained potter and writer; Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards, who renounced formalism at Black Mountain College to pursue new performative methods; and Susan Peterson, best known for her live throwing demonstrations on public television. Together, these women pioneered a hands-on teaching style and led educational and therapeutic activities for war veterans, students, the elderly, and many others. Far from being an isolated field, ceramics offered a sense of community and social engagement, which, Sorkin argues, crucially set the stage for later participatory forms of art and feminist collectivism.