"Full of surprises [and] evocative." The Spectator "Passionately
written." Apollo "An extraordinary accomplishment." Edmund de Waal
"Monumental." Times Literary Supplement "An epic reshaping of
ceramic art." Crafts "An important book." The Arts Society Magazine
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 millennia. Indeed, the history of
ceramics parallels the development of human society. This
fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art
and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Romans and the medieval
world; Islamic ceramic cultures and their influence on the Italian
Renaissance; Chinese and European porcelain production; modernity
and Art Nouveau; the rise of the studio potter, Art Deco,
International Style and Mid-Century Modern, and finally, the
contemporary explosion of ceramic making and the postmodern potter.
Interwoven in this journey through time and place is the story of
the pots themselves, the culture of the ceramics, and their
character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually
every country and historical period, and have worked as a commodity
servicing every social class. They are omnipresent: a ubiquitous
art. Ceramic culture is a clear, unique, definable thing, and has
an internal logic that holds it together through millennia. Hence
ceramics is the most peculiar and extraordinary of all the arts. At
once cheap, expensive, elite, plebeian, high-tech, low-tech,
exotic, eccentric, comic, tragic, spiritual, and secular, it has
revealed itself to be as fluid as the mud it is made from. Ceramics
are the very stuff of how civilized life was, and is, led. This
then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes
and effects.
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