Ceramics in the Victorian Era : Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature / Rachel Gotlieb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gotlieb, Rachel

Series:

Material Culture of Art and Design.

Material Culture of Art and Design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pottery--Social aspects.

Pottery.

Pottery in art.

Pottery, Victorian.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in recent scholarship, Ceramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature argues that the signification of a pot, a jug, or a tableware pattern can be more fully discerned in written and painted representations. Across five case studies, the book explores a rhetoric and set of conventions that developed within the representation of ceramics, emerging in the late-18th century, and continuing in the Victorian period. Each case study begins with a textual passage exemplifying the outlined theme and closes with an object analysis to demonstrate how the fusing of text, image, and object are critical to attaining the period eye in order to better understand the metaphorical meanings of ceramics. Essential reading not only for ceramics scholars, but also those of material culture, the book mines the rich and diverse archive of Victorian painting and literature, from the avant-garde to the sentimental, from the well-known to the more obscure, to shed light on the at once complex and simple implications of ceramics' agencies at this time.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Ceramics as an agent of design reform and Aestheticism

Chapter 2: Willow pattern: A mutable agent of British design and art

Chapter 3: Teacups tell such wondrous tales

Chapter 4: British pottery: Pride and piety

Chapter 5: A Victorian pitcher speaks a thousand words

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Plates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350354876

1350354872

9781350354852

1350354856

OCLC:

1375294118