New Export China - Translations Across Time Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art

"In China, from the past to the present, ceramics is not just a material but a language. Alex Burchmore has insightfully translated this language and its variations, or accents, in contemporary Chinese art."—Jiang Jiehong, author of The Art of Contemporary China 

"Rather than simply extracting meanings from the artworks, Alex Burchmore tells us broader stories of China’s history, culture, and contemporary social life associated with the making of contemporary ceramic art. These are not aesthetic objects alone; rather, this is a conceptually oriented collective production full of the ambiguity between traditional symbolism and contemporary deconstruction."—Gao Minglu, author of Total Modernity and Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art

List of contents

Contents

Acknowledgments 

Introduction
1. Porcelain Production 
2. Porcelain Past 
3. Porcelain Renaissance
4. Porcelain Clay
Conclusion: A Porcelain Aesthetic? 

Notes 
Bibliography
List of Illustrations 
Index 

About the author

Alex Burchmore is Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Burchmore
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2023
• EAN: 9780520390010
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39001-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; China, Ethnic Studies, Asia, ART / Ceramics, ART / History / General, Ceramic arts, pottery, glass, HISTORY / Asia / China, ART / Glass, ART / Asian / Chinese, History of Art, Asian History, Oriental art, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General