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Melancholy Wedgwood
Author | : Iris Moon |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2024-01-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0262546345 |
An experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity. Melancholy Wedgwood traces the multiple strands in the life of the ceramic entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) to propose an alternative view of eighteenth-century England’s tenuous relationship to our own lives and times, amid the ruins of late-capitalist modernity. Through intimate vignettes and essays, and in writing at turns funny, sharp, and pensive, Iris Moon chips away at the mythic image of Wedgwood as singular genius, business titan, and benevolent abolitionist, revealing an amorphous, fragile, and perhaps even shattered life. In the process the book goes so far as to dismantle certain entrenched social and economic assumptions, not least that the foundational myths of capitalism might not be quite so rosy after all, and instead induce a feeling that could only be characterized as blue.
Painting with Fire
Author | : Matthew C. Hunter |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 022639025X |
Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century—and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volatility became central to the ambitious paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, premier portraitist and first president of Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts. Valued by some critics for changing in time (and thus, for prompting intellectual reflection on the nature of time), Reynolds’s unstable chemistry also prompted new techniques of chemical replication among Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and other leading industrialists. In turn, those replicas of chemically decaying academic paintings were rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century and claimed as origin points in the history of photography. Tracing the long arc of chemically produced and reproduced art from the 1670s through the 1860s, the book reconsiders early photography by situating it in relationship to Reynolds’s replicated paintings and the literal engines of British industry. By following the chemicals, Painting with Fire remaps familiar stories about academic painting and pictorial experiment amid the industrialization of chemical knowledge.
Revolutionary Things
Author | : Ashli White |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2023-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300271840 |
How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals “By excavating the power of material objects and visual images to express the fervor and fear of the revolutionary era, Ashli White brings us closer to more fully embodied, more fully human, figures.”—Richard Rabinowitz, author of Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story “In this important, innovative book, Ashli White moves nimbly between North America, Europe, and the Caribbean to capture the richness and complexity of material culture in the Age of Revolutions.”—Michael Kwass, Johns Hopkins University Historian Ashli White explores the circulation of material culture during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, arguing that in the late eighteenth century, radical ideals were contested through objects as well as in texts. She considers how revolutionary things, as they moved throughout the Atlantic, brought people into contact with these transformative political movements in visceral, multiple, and provocative ways. Focusing on a range of objects—ceramics and furniture, garments and accessories, prints, maps, and public amusements—White shows how material culture held political meaning for diverse populations. Enslaved and free, women and men, poor and elite—all turned to things as a means to realize their varied and sometimes competing visions of revolutionary change.
The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Author | : Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.) |
Publisher | : ACC Distribution |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
This collection of approximately fourteen hundred objects is a comprehensive compilation of most forms of Wedgwood's ware from the eighteenth century, and such rare pieces as the figure of Britannia, a medallion bearing the portrait of Sir William Hamilton and inscribed by Thomas Bentley, and a cream-ware cream cullier can be found in no other museum.
The Dictionary of Wedgwood
Author | : Robin Reilly |
Publisher | : ACC Distribution |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Wedgwood ware |
ISBN | : |
An entertainment troupe formed from a mixed bunch of city folk, travels Queensland at the turn of the century and becomes involved in a series of adventures.
Portraits in British History
Author | : Ronald Pollitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Collecting China
Author | : Vimalin Rujivacharakul |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1611490065 |
Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Collecting China grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore this question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections to critical reinterpretations of historical writings.