The cultural aesthetics of eighteenth-century porcelain

The cultural aesthetics of eighteenth-century porcelain

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2010.

xiii, 215 p. ; 24 cm.

738.209 C376 2010

(OCoLC)456421128

Introduction / Alden Cavanaugh and Michael Yonan -- Rethinking the arcanum : porcelain, secrecy, and the eighteenth-century culture of invention / Glenn Adamson -- The nature of artifice : French porcelain flowers and the rhetoric of the garnish / Mimi Hellman -- Igneous architecture : porcelain, natural philosophy, and the Rococo cabinet chinois / Michael Yonan -- Marketing celebrity : porcelain and theatrical display / Heather McPherson -- Balancing act : Andrea Brustolon's "La Forza" and the display of imported porcelain in eighteenth-century Venice / Erin J. Campbell -- The Queen's nécessaire / Alden Cavanaugh -- Porcelain, print culture, and mercantile aesthetics / Dawn Odell -- Sugar boxes and blackamoors : ornamental blackness in early Meissen porcelain / Adrienne L. Childs -- Ties that bind : relations between the Royal Academy of San Fernando and the Royal Porcelain Factory of the Buen Retiro / Andrew Schulz.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
L2010M137

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