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Melancholy Wedgwood / Iris Moon.
Fine Arts Library NK4210.W4 M73 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moon, Iris, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795.
- Wedgwood, Josiah.
- Potters--England--Biography.
- Potters.
- Art and society--England--History--18th century.
- Art and society.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- History
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Melancholy Wedgwood is an experimental biography that traces multiple strands in the ceramic entrepreneur's life to propose an alternative look at eighteenth-century England's tenuous relationship to our own lives and times"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Phantom urn
- A body for Stubbs
- Black and blue
- His son's shadow
- Postscript: Wasters and rags.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780262546348
- 0262546345
- OCLC:
- 1375652759
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