Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks Books
Fonthill Media LLc Hualyn Americas Finest Porcelain
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£23.75
Chipstone Foundation Ceramics in America 2023
Book SynopsisThe 2023 volume ofCeramics in Americais filled with content of interest to students of American ceramics history. The articles cover a wide range of topics and regions, including ceramics made in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Virginia. Of particular importance is the analysis of a small porcelain snuff box from the so-called A-marked group of porcelains made in London ca. 1745 from china clay obtained in America's Cherokee Territory. A featured essay on the remarkable ceramics of John Wesley Carpenter offers for the first time an in-depth look at this nineteenth-century potter, who worked in the back country of North Carolina and Virginia. Several articles present thematic discussions about historic ceramics made and used to promote the abolition of slavery in both America and England. The use of ceramics to effect social change continues to this day, as is illustrated in the words and works of ceramic artist David Mack of Baltimore, Maryland.
£57.95
Countryside Books The Boxford Mosaic: A Unique Survivor from the
Book SynopsisThe Boxford Mosaic has been described as the most spectacular and innovative Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. Yet it lay hidden beneath a Berkshire field for some 1,600 years until it was fully uncovered in the Summer of 2019. Dating from around 350 AD and set amid the ruins of a villa, the mosaic depicts tales of famous heroes from Greek mythology. Hercules slays the half-man, half-horse Centaur. Pelops wins the hand of a king's daughter by sabotaging the wheel linchpin of his racing chariot. And the handsome Bellerophon kills the fire-breathing Chimaera monster with the help of his flying horse Pegasus - a legend that became our very own St George and the Dragon. The full description of this artistic masterpiece and its excavation, by local enthusiasts working under professional supervision, is told here by the three who played key roles in the operation. JOY APPLETON is Chairwoman of the Boxford History Project. MATT NICHOL is a leading archaeologist with Cotswold Archaeology. ANTHONY BEESON is one of the UK's leading authorities on mosaics and Roman and Greek architecture. He is also the archivist of the Association for Roman Archaeology.
£15.40
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd The Pottery of John Ward
Book SynopsisJohn Ward (b.1938) has a longstanding reputation as one of Britain's foremost potters, and yet very little has been written about his manifold achievements. Authoritative and enlightening, this will be the first account of Ward’s life and work, tracing the evolution of his ideas and his practice as a potter and placing them critically within the history of British Studio Pottery. The qualities of Ward’s best pots are hard to define. As the late Emmanuel Cooper noted as long ago as 1996: “...the apparently contrasting qualities of drama and quiet reflection, is one of the most engaging aspects of his work. This sense of balance, of the tension between pushing and pulling, light and shade, movement and rest, makes Ward’s work distinctive, distinguished and intriguing.” Setting out to explore and define those distinctions - expressing what makes Ward’s pots compelling and historically significant - the potter's important artistic contribution will finally be expressed. Trade Review'John Ward is a unique figure in the history of studio ceramics. This is the long awaited, insightful and beautiful monograph that illuminates the range and depth of his art. It will bring an even greater audience to appreciate his remarkable subtlety and strength.' – Edmund de Waal'Carefully and thoughtfully produced, this insightful monograph is a must-have for admirers of Ward’s work but a valuable addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in contemporary studio ceramics.' – Helen Ritchie, Decorative Arts Society
£48.59
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Canhasan Sites 2: Canhasan 1: The Pottery
Book SynopsisThe excavations at Canhasan Höyök I in the Konya plain of central Turkey revealed a series of settlements running through the Chalcolithic period (c.5500-3000 BC). The pottery from the site, much of it of types previously unknown or not found elsewhere in stratified contexts, is of fundamental importance for an understanding of this period in Anatolia. In this volume, Dr French, the excavator of Canhasan and for many years director of the British Institute at Ankara, carefully and concisely presents both the plain and decorated wares, with detailed descriptions of their characteristic fabrics, shapes and decoration. There is a full catalogue of the best-preserved and most important pieces (which were registered finds), but a major feature of the volume are the drawings of over 2500 less well-preserved pieces, which illustrate all the characteristic shapes and types of decoration. A special feature of the study is a careful grading of the material in terms of chronological reliability. The author privileges the whole, or nearly whole, pots found on floors in each layer, as the only types which were certainly made at the time. Related pottery may be accepted as contemporary, but with less certainty, while unrelated wares must be treated with circumspection, for they may be either recycled from an earlier layer or intrusive from a later one. This rigorous methodology means that the Chalcolithic pottery provides a completely reliable relative chronology through the Chalcolithic period, and the volume will remain a basic reference for Near Eastern archaeology.Trade Reviewwe are fortunate to have Frenchs analysis of the pottery for this important site.' -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review Bryn Mawr Classical Review a daring and useful approach to assessing ceramics from archaeological sites,' -- Bibliotheca Orientalis Bibliotheca Orientalis
£69.63
Anomie Publishing Manolo Valdés – in Glass
Book SynopsisFor over half a century, Valencia-born, New York-based Manolo Valdés has been a prominent international figure in the arena of contemporary art, known for his work in the mediums of sculpture, painting, drawing and collage. In this striking and imposing publication, designed in close dialogue with the artist by Peter B. Willberg and produced in Italy, Valdés presents a body of thirty-five sculptures created in 2020 and 2021. Along with wood, alabaster, aluminium, steel and resin, the primary medium employed in this body of work is glass, following a significant and intense period of research and experimentation.The resulting works are engaging contemporary portrait busts that make reference to the history of modernist painting and sculpture, taking inspiration from imagery and objects by twentieth-century masters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Constantin Brancusi. Developing his ‘recipes’ for their fabrication – materials, processes, conditions and timings – with both care and flair, Valdés has created sculptural glass busts in a range of amber oranges, ruby reds, emerald greens, sapphire blues, and onyx blacks, all of which almost seem to glow with what Dr Kosme de Barañano, the book’s author, describes as ‘an inner light’.Barañano’s comprehensive and illuminating essay not only investigates aspects of the history of glass making and its use as a material by artists past and present, but also traces the evolution of the language and forms of Valdés’s glass and mixed-media works across a number of key exhibitions and bodies of work over the course of the past two decades. These include his monumental sculptures at the New York Botanical Garden in 2012 and his dramatic solo presentation in the Place Vendôme in Paris in 2016, both of which offered opportunities to see the artist’s large-scale sculptural works in outdoor settings. Discussing the significance of 'Cabezas' (heads) in his oeuvre, Barañano asserts: ‘These glass "Cabezas" are tremendously sombre and simple works from which emanates a profound silence.’This large-format publication, which is illustrated by specially commissioned photography by Tom Powel, documents many of the sculptures from different angles and by means of details, revealing not only the subtleties and qualities of the surfaces of the abstracted, humanlike glass heads, but also the curious and eclectic appendages that regularly appear to burst forth from them like unorthodox fascinators or eccentric jewellery, from nails and steel rods to glass or metal butterflies and wooden geometric forms. With a timelessness that speaks of civilisations long gone and a modernity that simultaneously seems to look to the future, Valdés has created a body of sculpture in glass that transcends time, touching on the metaphysical nature of the human mind and its outward manifestation in the physical world.Manolo Valdés (b.1942, Valencia) is one of the most significant post-war Spanish artists. A key member of the Equipo Crónica until 1981, in 1989 he moved to New York. Major solo exhibitions include the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Reina Sofía, Madrid, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Château Royale de Chambord, France.
£28.00
Ifao Ceramiques Ptolemaiques de la Region Thebaine
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£50.00
Harrassowitz Chronological Overview of Pottery from Asyut: A
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£118.75
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Amphora Research in Castrum Viall on Brijuni
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£121.00
Dr Ludwig Reichert Ceramic Technology, Production and Use in an
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£242.76
Dr Ludwig Reichert Glaswerk: Beitrage Zur Erforschung Von Glas Und
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£142.08
Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag Sigillata Und Lampen Aus Den Topfereien Von Henchir El Guellal Bei Djilma
£97.15
Hirmer Verlag Reverse Paintings on Glass: 100 Unpublished
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£81.07
Hirmer Verlag A Princely Pursuit: The Malcolm D. Gutter
Book SynopsisMalcolm D. Gutter has been forming his porcelain collection over several decades with a focus on early Meissen, particularly the royal collection that Augustus II commissioned for the Japanisches Palais, his pleasure palace in Dresden. In addition to the porcelain works produced at Meissen, Augustus II avidly collected those imported from China and Japan. A Princely Pursuit reproduces many documented pieces from this royal collection, including both Meissen and Asian works. The Gutter promised gift exemplifies a significant range of early Meissen wares, including many examples of early red stoneware (Böttgersteinzeung) as well as numerous pieces created under Johann Höroldt’s (1696–1775) direction. A Princely Pursuit will serve as an important contribution to the field of porcelain studies, especially in its significance to San Francisco. Gutter’s entire collection of Meissen and related Asian porcelains has been promised to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the city he calls home and where he began collecting more than forty years ago. Through the Malcolm D. Gutter collection, the Legion of Honor will become a destination for the study of early Meissen porcelain, and the publication of this catalogue exemplifies this ongoing scholarship. A Princely Pursuit presents more than one hundred significant pieces from the collection of Malcolm D. Gutter, an avid collector of Meissen works of art. His collection represents exemplary works from the German manufactory, including especially the royal collection that Augustus II commissioned for the Japanisches Palais, his pleasure palace in Dresden.
£63.16
Hirmer Verlag The Sanctuary of Aphaia on Aigina in the Bronze
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£65.00
Hirmer Verlag Hans Gottfried Von Stockhausen: v. 1: Autonomous
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£49.50
Hirmer Verlag Hans Gottfried Von Stockhausen: v. 2:
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£32.50
Gebruder Mann Verlag Kunst & Industrie: Veredelung Der Arbeit Und
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£64.60
Dr Ludwig Reichert Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin - Preussischer
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£282.15
Museum Tusculanum Press Tin-Glazed Earthenware from the Netherlands,
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£71.25
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Italia, 79: Ruvo Di
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£295.80
L'Erma Di Bretschneider L'Enigma Dei Vasi Murrini / The Enigma of
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£103.55
Peeters Publishers The Mosaics of the Norman Stanza in Palermo: A Study of Byzantine and Medieval Islamic Palace Decoration
Book SynopsisThis book explores the making and meaning of one of the most enigmatic and singular interior spaces of the Middle Ages, the mosaic incrusted chamber commonly known as the 'Room of Roger' in the palace of the Norman kings of Sicily in Palermo. The unique way in which Byzantine technique, skill and style are blended with Maghribi Islamic perspective conventions and iconography while producing aesthetic interaction as well as obvious tension, serves as a starting point for an investigation of the various currents of artistic exchange and dynastic pretensions between Palermo, Constantinople, Norman Antioch and the Maghrib. Political aspirations in the Levant, Almoravid splendour in Fez and Marrakech, and the ever-present rival, the Byzantine emperor, all come to play a part in the making of the famous 'Camera di Ruggero'.
£105.00
University of the West Indies Press Jamaican Ceramics: A Historical and Contemporary
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£40.50
Oxbow Books Revisiting Grooved Ware: Understanding Ceramic Trajectories in Britain and Ireland, 3200–2400 cal BC
Book SynopsisFollowing its appearance, arguably in Orkney in the 32nd century cal BC, Grooved Ware soon became widespread across Britain and Ireland, seemingly replacing earlier pottery styles and being deposited in contexts as varied as simple pits, passage tombs, ceremonial timber circles and henge monuments. As a result, Grooved Ware lies at the heart of many ongoing debates concerning social and economic developments at the end of the 4th and during the first half of the 3rd millennia cal BC.Stemming from the 2022 Neolithic Studies Group autumn conference, and following on from Cleal and MacSween’s 1999 NSG volume on Grooved Ware, this book presents a series of papers from researchers specializing in Grooved Ware pottery and the British and Irish Neolithic, offering both regional and thematic perspectives on this important ceramic tradition. Chapters cover the development of Grooved Ware in Orkney as well as the timing and nature of its appearance, development, and subsequent demise in different regions of Britain and Ireland. In addition, thematic papers consider what Grooved Ware can contribute to understandings of inter-regional interactions during the earlier 3rd millennium cal BC, the possible meaning of Grooved Ware’s decorative motifs, and the thorny issue of the validity and significance of the various Grooved Ware sub-styles.The book will be of great value not only to archaeologists and students with a specific interest in Grooved Ware pottery but also to those with a more general interest in the development of the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland.Table of ContentsForeword List of contributors 1. Introduction: connected Grooved Ware worlds Mike Copper and Alasdair Whittle 2. Grooved Ware in Orkney Alison Sheridan 3. Skara Brae: the significance of the Grooved Ware assemblages Ann MacSween and David V. Clarke 4. Scottish Grooved Ware beyond Orkney Mike Copper 5. Grooved Ware in northern England since 2000 Sarah Botfield and Gill Hey 6. Grooved Ware from Wales Francis Lynch 7. Land of milk and honey? Grooved Ware use in Neolithic Wales Lilly Olet, Richard Evershed and Jessica Smyth 8. Grooved Ware in Ireland Eoin Grogan and Helen Roche 9. Niche bunching and the Inland Sea: Grooved Ware settlement at Over, Cambridgeshire, and River Great Ouse distributions Chris Evan, Joshua Pollard and Jonathan Tabor 10. The only way isn’t Essex, but it may be one of them…: Grooved Ware, Beakers and long-distance connections in southern Britain Joshua Pollard and Rosamund Cleal 11. Between Essex and Wessex Alistair Barclay 12. Recent Grooved Ware discoveries from Bulford and other sites in southern Wiltshire Elina Brook 13. Grooved Ware in south-east England: social geographies, chronology and interpretation Paul Garwood 14. Grooved Ware in the south-west peninsula Andy M. Jones and Henrietta Quinnell 15. Comments on Grooved Ware from a bemused sceptic: questions of classification and terminology, dating and interpretation David V. Clarke 16. Grooved Ware in Britain and Ireland, 2023: retrospect and prospect Alison Sheridan
£54.32
