20th Century Ceramics

by Edmund de Waal

Book Overview

Ceramics have kept pace with, or even led, new movements in art, from art nouveau, art deco, the Bauhaus, and futurism, through abstract expressionism, pop and performance, to land art and installation art. Stylistic and technical influences are considered here in context, from orientalism and color theory to modernism, postmodernism, and the profuse diversity of approaches that characterizes the end of the century The scope is wide, taking in developments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500203717
• ISBN13: 9780500203712
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.5"