Portland Vase: Mania & Muse (1780-2023)
Innbundet /
2024
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9783777441566
Published
2024-06-20
Publisher
Hirmer Verlag
Weight
880 gr
Height
254 mm
Width
254 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
112
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Biographical note
Rachel Gotlieb (PhD) is the Ruth Rippon Curator of Ceramics at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, USA. She is the author of Ceramics in the Victorian Era (1840– 1890): Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature (Bloomsbury 2023). Previously she was Chief Curator at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto Canada.
The Portland Vase, the ancient Roman glass cameo amphora held in the British Museum, has been replicated and reinterpreted countless times, becoming a global brand that has resonated with makers, collectors, and consumers for centuries.
Featuring more than 65 artworks, this book examines the role of brands in our culture and asks why Western Classical traditions dominate the artistic canon, and how that canon might be reconsidered and disrupted. Josiah Wedgwood, Viola Frey, Clare Twomey and Robert Lugo, among others engaged with the cameo-glass masterpiece. Their creative conceptual choices respond to complex histories of transfiguration and representation to create a new set of visual and cultural dialogues.
Featuring more than 65 artworks, this book examines the role of brands in our culture and asks why Western Classical traditions dominate the artistic canon, and how that canon might be reconsidered and disrupted. Josiah Wedgwood, Viola Frey, Clare Twomey and Robert Lugo, among others engaged with the cameo-glass masterpiece. Their creative conceptual choices respond to complex histories of transfiguration and representation to create a new set of visual and cultural dialogues.
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Product details
ISBN
9783777441566
Published
2024-06-20
Publisher
Hirmer Verlag
Weight
880 gr
Height
254 mm
Width
254 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
112
Text by