The cultural aesthetics of eighteenth-century porcelain / edited by Alden Cavanagh, Michael E. Yonan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavanagh, Alden.

Contributor:

Yonan, Michael Elia.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Porcelain--18th century.

Porcelain.

Art and society--History--18th century.

Art and society.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2010]

Contents:

Introduction / Alden Cavanaugh and Michael Yonan

Rethinking the arcanum : porcelain, secrecy, and the eighteenth-century culture of invention / Glenn Adamson

The nature of artifice : French porcelain flowers and the rhetoric of the garnish / Mimi Hellman

Igneous architecture : porcelain, natural philosophy, and the Rococo cabinet chinois / Michael Yonan

Marketing celebrity : porcelain and theatrical display / Heather McPherson

Balancing act : Andrea Brustolon's "La Forza" and the display of imported porcelain in eighteenth-century Venice / Erin J. Campbell

The Queen's nécessaire / Alden Cavanaugh

Porcelain, print culture, and mercantile aesthetics / Dawn Odell

Sugar boxes and blackamoors : ornamental blackness in early Meissen porcelain / Adrienne L. Childs

Ties that bind : relations between the Royal Academy of San Fernando and the Royal Porcelain Factory of the Buen Retiro / Andrew Schulz.

Notes:

Introduction / Alden Cavanaugh and Michael Yonan -- Rethinking the arcanum : porcelain, secrecy, and the eighteenth-century culture of invention / Glenn Adamson -- The nature of artifice : French porcelain flowers and the rhetoric of the garnish / Mimi Hellman -- Igneous architecture : porcelain, natural philosophy, and the Rococo cabinet chinois / Michael E. Yonan -- Marketing celebrity : porcelain and theatrical display / Heather McPherson -- Balancing act : Andrea Brustolon's "La Forza" and the display of imported porcelain in eighteenth-century Venice / Erin J. Campbell -- The Queen's nécessaire / Alden Cavanaugh -- Porcelain, print culture, and mercantile aesthetics / Dawn Odell -- Sugar boxes and blackamoors : ornamental blackness in early Meissen porcelain / Adrienne L. Childs -- Ties that bind : relations between the Royal Academy of San Fernando and the Royal Porcelain Factory of the Buen Retiro / Andrew Schulz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780754663867

0754663868

OCLC:

456421128