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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Prints & printmaking > General
From the introduction of woodblock printing in China to the
development of copper-plate engraving in Europe, the print medium
has been used around the world to circulate knowledge. Ceramic
artists across time and cultures have adapted these graphic sources
as painted or transfer-printed images applied onto glazed or
unglazed surfaces to express political and social issues including
propaganda, self-promotion, piety, gender, national and regional
identities. Long before photography, printers also included pots in
engravings or other two-dimensional techniques which have broadened
scholarship and encouraged debate. Pots, Prints and Politics
examines how European and Asian ceramics traditionally associated
with the domestic sphere have been used by potters to challenge
convention and tackle serious issues from the 14th to the 20th
century. Using the British Museum's world-renowned ceramics and
prints collections as a base, the authors have challenged and
interrogated a variety of ceramic objects - from teapots to chamber
pots - to discover new meanings that are as relevant today as they
were when they were first conceived.
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