{"product_id":"9781350354920","title":"Ceramics in the Victorian Era Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature","description":"\u003ch3\u003eMaterial Culture of Art and Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eCeramics in the Victorian Era\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMeanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRachel Gotlieb | Michael Yonan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt \/ Ceramics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in recent scholarship, \u003ci\u003eCeramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e  argues that the signification of a pot, a jug, or a tableware pattern can be more fully discerned in written and painted representations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross five case studies, the book explores a rhetoric and set of conventions that developed within the representation of ceramics, emerging in the late-18th century, and continuing in the Victorian period. Each case study begins with a textual passage exemplifying the outlined theme and closes with an object analysis to demonstrate how the fusing of text, image, and object are critical to attaining the period eye in order to better understand the metaphorical meanings of ceramics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssential reading not only for ceramics scholars, but also those of material culture, the book mines the rich and diverse archive of Victorian painting and literature, from the avant-garde to the sentimental, from the well-known to the more obscure, to shed light on the at once complex and simple implications of ceramics' agencies at this time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRachel Gotlieb\u003c\/b\u003e is the inaugural Ruth Rippon Curator of Ceramics at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, USA. Previously, she was Chief Curator at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29 October 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350354920\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e296\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63030758736012,"sku":"9781350354920","price":35.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_26776616-bb16-481d-ba1a-84b332799643.jpg?v=1792188748","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350354920","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}