Hear Me Now
The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
ISBN: HB: 9781588397263,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
September 2022
192 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 154 colour illus.
192 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 154 colour illus.
Nineteenth-century stoneware by enslaved and free potters living in Edgefield, South Carolina, highlights the central role of Black artists in the region's long-standing pottery traditions.
Recentering the development of industrially scaled Southern...
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35.00 GBP
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Lucie Rie
Modernist Potter
ISBN: PB: 9781913107307,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
The life and legacy of brilliant but elusive potter Lucie Rie is investigated through interviews, letters and the analysis of her elegant, modernist vessels.
Lucie Rie (1902-1995), one of the 20th century's most celebrated and iconic potters, combin...
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25.00 GBP
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Gifts from the Fire
American Ceramics, 1880-1950: From the Collection of Martin Eidelberg
ISBN: HB: 9781588397324,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2021
256 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 273 colour illus.
256 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 273 colour illus.
Between the early 1880s and the early 1950s, pioneering American artists drew upon the rich traditions and recent innovations of European and Asian ceramics to develop new designs, decorations, and techniques. With splendid new photography, this book...
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50.00 GBP
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Inspiring Walt Disney
The Animation of French Decorative Arts
ISBN: HB: 9781588397416,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2021
256 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 200 colour illus.
256 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 200 colour illus.
Pink castles, talking sofas, and a prince transformed into a teapot: what sounds like fantasies from Walt Disney's pioneering animations could first be found in the colorful salons of Rococo Paris. The films produced by Disney Animation Studios repre...
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40.00 GBP
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English Medieval Embroidery
Opus Anglicanum
ISBN: PB: 9780300259988,
Yale University Press,
August 2021
324 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 160 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
324 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 160 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
In medieval Europe, embroidered textiles were indispensable symbols of wealth and power. Owing to their quality, complexity and magnificence, English embroideries enjoyed international demand and can be traced in Continental sources as opus anglicanu...
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25.00 GBP
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Collecting Inspiration
Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
ISBN: HB: 9781588396907,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
July 2021
320 pp., 27,9x22,8 cm, 275 colour illus.
320 pp., 27,9x22,8 cm, 275 colour illus.
Edward C. Moore (1827-1891) was the creative leader who brought unparalleled originality and success to Tiffany & Co. during the late 19th century. A silversmith, designer, and prodigious collector, Moore sought out exceptional objects from around th...
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50.00 GBP
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Enlightened Eclecticism
The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland
ISBN: HB: 9781913107178,
Yale University Press,
June 2021
400 pp., 28,4x24,6 cm, 285 colour and black&white illus.
400 pp., 28,4x24,6 cm, 285 colour and black&white illus.
The central decades of the 18th century in Britain were crucial to the history of European taste and design. One of the period's most important campaigns of patronage and collecting was that of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland: Sir Hugh Smi...
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Daniel Cottier
Designer, Decorator, Dealer
ISBN: HB: 9781913107185,
Yale University Press,
May 2021
256 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
256 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
This book follows the phenomenal rise of Daniel Cottier (1838-1891) from an apprentice coach painter in Glasgow to the founder of Cottier & Co., a fine and decorative arts business with branches in London, New York, Sydney and Melbourne. This gifted...
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40.00 GBP
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Majolica Mania
Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915
ISBN: SET: 9780300251043,
Yale University Press,
November 2020
888 pp., 30,4x24,1 cm, 1200 colour and black&white illus.
888 pp., 30,4x24,1 cm, 1200 colour and black&white illus.
Colorful, wildly imaginative, and technically innovative, majolica was functional and aesthetic ceramic ware. Its subject matter reflects a range of 19th-century preoccupations, from botany and zoology to popular humor and the macabre. "Majolica Mani...
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225.00 GBP
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Ceramics of Iran
Islamic Pottery in the Sarikhani Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300254280,
Yale University Press,
October 2020
528 pp., 29,8x24,1 cm, 530 colour and black&white illus.
528 pp., 29,8x24,1 cm, 530 colour and black&white illus.
Featuring a broad selection of objects from one of the most distinguished collections of Iranian art, this volume brings together over 1,000 years of Persian Islamic pottery. With more than 500 illustrations, authoritative technical treatises, and in...
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50.00 GBP
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