Pots, Prints and Politics: Ceramics with an Agenda, from the 14th to the 20th Century
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Creator (person)
Ferguson, Patricia F.
Date published
2021
Abstract
From the introduction of woodblock printing in China to the development of copper-plate engraving in Europe, the print medium has been used around the world to circulate knowledge. Ceramic artists across time and cultures have adapted these graphic sources as painted or transfer-printed images applied onto glazed or unglazed surfaces to express political and social issues including propaganda, self-promotion, piety, gender, national and regional identities. Long before photography, printers also included pots in engravings or other two-dimensional techniques which have broadened scholarship and encouraged debate. Pots, Prints and Politics examines how European and Asian ceramics traditionally associated with the domestic sphere have been used by potters to challenge convention and tackle serious issues from the 14th to the 20th century. Using the British Museum’s world-renowned ceramics and prints collections as a base, the authors have challenged and interrogated a variety of ceramic objects – from teapots to chamber pots – to discover new meanings that are as relevant today as they were when they were first conceived.
Contributor (person)
Luk, Yu-ping
Buck, Elaine
Xin, Wenyuan
Thornton, Dora
Blakey, Claire
King, Rachel
Glaister, Helen
Jones, Catrin
Biancalana, Alessandro
O’Connell, Sheila
McCaffrey-Howarth, Caroline
Redfern, Mary
Fuchs II, Ronald W.
Ginsberg, Mary
Editor
Ferguson, Patricia F.
Funder
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Ceramica-Stiftung Basel | |
Publisher
British Museum
Place of publication
London
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