{"title":"Paul Greenhalgh","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Greenhalgh's works delve into the rich intersections of \u003cstrong\u003eart, craft, and cultural history\u003c\/strong\u003e. His writings explore how ordinary materials like ceramics reflect broader civilisations and human creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful examinations of the visual arts and their significance across time, offering insights into both technique and cultural context within the \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e realm.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ceramic-art-and-civilisation-by-paul-greenhalgh-9781474239707","title":"Ceramic, Art and Civilisation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Full of surprises [and] evocative.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Passionately written.\" \u003ci\u003eApollo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"An extraordinary accomplishment.\" \u003ci\u003eEdmund de Waal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Monumental.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"An epic reshaping of ceramic art.\" \u003ci\u003eCrafts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"An important book.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Arts Society Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millennia. Indeed, the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Romans and the medieval world; Islamic ceramic cultures and their influence on the Italian Renaissance; Chinese and European porcelain production; modernity and Art Nouveau; the rise of the studio potter, Art Deco, International Style and Mid-Century Modern, and finally, the contemporary explosion of ceramic making and the postmodern potter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInterwoven in this journey through time and place is the story of the pots themselves, the \u003ci\u003eculture\u003c\/i\u003e of the ceramics, and their character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually every country and historical period and have worked as a commodity servicing every social class. They are omnipresent: a ubiquitous art. Ceramic culture is a clear, unique, definable thing, and has an internal logic that holds it together through millennia. Hence ceramics is the most peculiar and extraordinary of all the arts. At once cheap, expensive, elite, plebeian, high-tech, low-tech, exotic, eccentric, comic, tragic, spiritual, and secular, it has revealed itself to be as fluid as the mud it is made from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCeramics are the very stuff of how civilised life was, and is, led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423912575212,"sku":"9781474239707","price":66.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781474239707.jpg?v=1774769641"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/paul-greenhalgh.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}