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Book The Boehm Journey to Ching te Chen  China  Birthplace of Porcelain

Download or read book The Boehm Journey to Ching te Chen China Birthplace of Porcelain written by Frank J. Cosentino and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boehm Journey to Ching te Chen  China

Download or read book The Boehm Journey to Ching te Chen China written by Frank Cosentino and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China s Porcelain Capital

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  • Author : Maris Boyd Gillette
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-08-11
  • ISBN : 147425943X
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book China s Porcelain Capital written by Maris Boyd Gillette and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day. Gillette explores how Jingdezhen has been affected by state involvement in porcelain production, particularly during the long 20th century. She considers how the Chinese government has consumed, invested in, taxed and managed the local ceramics industry, and the effects of this state intervention on ceramists' lives, their local environment and the nature of the goods they produce. Gillette traces how Jingdezhen experienced the transition from imperial rule to state ownership under communism, the changing fortunes of the ceramics industry in the early 21st century, the decay and decline that accompanied privatisation, and a revival brought about by an entrepreneurial culture focusing on the manufacture of highly-prized 'art porcelain'.

Book The City of Blue and White

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  • Author : Anne Gerritsen
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-05-07
  • ISBN : 1108604242
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book The City of Blue and White written by Anne Gerritsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains. Many of these were made in the kilns in and surrounding Jingdezhen. Found in almost every part of the world, Jingdezhen's porcelains had a far-reaching impact on global consumption, which in turn shaped the local manufacturing processes. The imperial kilns of Jingdezhen produced ceramics for the court, while nearby private kilns manufactured for the global market. In this beautifully illustrated study, Anne Gerritsen asks how this kiln complex could manufacture such quality, quantity and variety. She explores how objects tell the story of the past, connecting texts with objects, objects with natural resources, and skilled hands with the shapes and designs they produced. Through the manufacture and consumption of Jingdezhen's porcelains, she argues, China participated in the early modern world.

Book The Boehm Journey to Egypt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank J. Cosentino
  • Publisher : Edward Marshall Boehm Incorporated
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Boehm Journey to Egypt written by Frank J. Cosentino and published by Edward Marshall Boehm Incorporated. This book was released on 1978 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clay

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  • Author : Jennifer Lucy Allan
  • Publisher : White Rabbit
  • Release : 2024-08-01
  • ISBN : 1399607669
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Clay written by Jennifer Lucy Allan and published by White Rabbit. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Clay contains infinite possibilities in its transmutations, evidenced on the shelves of our homes, our galleries and museums. Every time we make something with clay, we engage with the timelines that are in the material itself, whether it was dug from a clifftop, riverbed or pit. In firing what we make, we bestow the material with function, meaning, or feeling, and anchor its form in a human present... Objects made from clay contain marks of our existence that collectively tell the story of human history more completely than any other material. There is a reason there are so many pots in museums: because fired clay is one of the most effective keepers of stories we have.' This book is a love letter to clay, the material that is at the beginning, middle and end of all of our lives; that contains within it the eternal, the elemental, and the everyday. People have been taking handfuls of earth and forming them into their own image since human history began. Human forms are found everywhere there was a ceramic tradition, and there is a ceramic tradition everywhere there was human activity. The clay these figures are made from was formed in deep geological time. It is the material that God, cast as the potter, uses to form Adam in Genesis. Tomb paintings in Egypt show the god Khnum at a potter's wheel, throwing a human. Humans first recorded our own history on clay tablets, the shape of the characters influenced by the clay itself. The first love poem was inscribed in a clay tablet, from a Sumerian bride to her king more than 4000 years ago. Born out of a desire to know and understand the mysteries of this material, the spiritual and practical applications of clay in both its micro and macro histories, Clay: A Human History is a book of wonder and insight, a hybrid of archaeology, history and lived experience as an amateur potter.

Book Newborn Socialist Things

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  • Author : Laurence Coderre
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2021-06-28
  • ISBN : 1478021616
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Newborn Socialist Things written by Laurence Coderre and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible. Indeed, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong, both the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist world of commodity consumption miraculously sprang fully formed. In Newborn Socialist Things, Laurence Coderre explores the material culture of the Cultural Revolution to show how it paved the way for commodification in contemporary China. Examining objects ranging from retail counters and porcelain statuettes to textbooks and vanity mirrors, she shows how the project of building socialism in China has always been intimately bound up with consumption. By focusing on these objects—or “newborn socialist things”—along with the Cultural Revolution’s media environment, discourses of materiality, and political economy, Coderre reconfigures understandings of the origins of present-day China.

Book Princeton Alumni Weekly

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 986 pages

Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by and published by princeton alumni weekly. This book was released on 1977 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Yorker

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  • Author : Harold Wallace Ross
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 794 pages

Download or read book The New Yorker written by Harold Wallace Ross and published by . This book was released on 1977-02 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ching te chen

Download or read book Ching te chen written by Robert Tichane and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books and Pamphlets  Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

Download or read book Books and Pamphlets Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art  New York

Download or read book Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Clique

Download or read book The Clique written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Index

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  • Author : Alice Maria Dougan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1144 pages

Download or read book Art Index written by Alice Maria Dougan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Catalog

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  • Author : Library of Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1040 pages

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: