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Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics, 1880-1950: From the Collection of Martin Eidelberg

Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics, 1880-1950: From the Collection of Martin Eidelberg

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney
Eidelberg, Martin

Hardcover

Art HistoryCeramicsGeneral Art

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ISBN10: 1588397327
ISBN13: 9781588397324
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: Nov 30 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 3.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 9.80 Depth: 11.20
Language: English
This illustrated history highlights the diversity and innovation of American ceramics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as artists responded to historical precedents and emerging modernist styles around the world

Between the early 1880s and the early 1950s, pioneering American artists drew upon the rich traditions and recent innovations of European and Asian ceramics to develop new designs, decorations, and techniques. With splendid new photography, this book showcases these American interpretations of international trends, from the Arts and Crafts and Art Deco movements, through the modernism of Matisse and the Wiener Werkstätte, to abstracted, minimalist styles.

Illustrations of more than 180 exemplary works--some of these never before published--accompany engaging essays by two of the foremost experts on American art pottery. The featured makers include Rookwood, Grueby, and Van Briggle potteries, as well as artists including Maija Grotell, George E. Ohr, Frederick Hurten Rhead, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Rockwell Kent, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Leza McVey. A vivid and accessible overview of American ceramics and ceramists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this publication reveals how diverse and global sources inspired works of astonishing ingenuity and variety by artists working in the United States.

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