Grain of the Clay - Reflections on Ceramics and the Art of Collecting

Informationen zum Autor Allen S. Weiss teaches in the departments of Performance Studies and Cinema Studies at New York University. He is the author and editor of over forty books in the fields of performance theory, landscape architecture, gastonomy, sound art and experimental theatre. Mirrors of In?nity: The French Formal Garden and 17th-century Metaphysics (1995), Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime (2002), Varieties of Audio Mimesis: Musical Evocations of Landscape (2008) and, most recently, Zen Landscapes (Reaktion Books, 2013) Klappentext People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of the Clay is Allen S. Weiss's engaging exploration of the meaning and practice of collecting through his relationship with Japanese ceramics. Zusammenfassung People collect to connect with the past! personal and historic! to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of the Clay is Allen S. Weiss's engaging exploration of the meaning and practice of collecting through his relationship with Japanese ceramics.

Product details

• Authors: Allen S. Weiss, Weiss Allen S.
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781780236421
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-642-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / Ceramics, Ceramic arts, pottery, glass, ART / Museum Studies, ART / Glass, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks