World Ceramics – Robert J.Charleston
Illustrated History Large paperback
392 pages of illustrations and pictures
First softback edition 1981
10 1/4" X 13”
This book is a comprehensive visual history of ceramics. It shows the diversity of the subject with well over a thousand color illustrations. Emphasis on the dual role of ceramics - a utilitarian craft and decorative art. History reaches as far back into antiquity up to the present day. Full range of pottery and porcelain encompass in this volume.
The editor Robert Charleston, is Keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Glass at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
The editor Robert Charleston, is Keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Glass at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Comprehensive in every way, this exciting visual history of ceramics shows all the diversity of this subject in well over a thousand illustrations -- over sixty in color. The dual role of ceramics -- its evolution as a utilitarian craft, as well as its elaboration into a decorative art -- is fascinatingly displayed in all its contexts, from the peasant's hearth to the courts of kings. This history reaches far back into remotest antiquity to the earliest archaeological discoveries of crude baked clay vessels. All the mainstreams of ceramic tradition, reflecting the character and taste of different civilizations, are then traced through prehistory, the medieval and Renaissance periods, the age of elegance, followed by the industrial revolution, right up to the present day.
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