Description
Explores how middle-class American values and national identity were promoted and demonstrated through tableware designed for the American market in the 19th and 20th centuries.
About the Author
Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi is Professor of Art History at the University Missouri-St Louis, USA. She has served as Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program and as Co-Director of Museum Studies, for which she has taught courses in Material Culture. She was awarded her PhD by Harvard University, USA, and has written three books and over forty articles for peer-reviewed journals, and edited and translated Charles Perrault: Memoirs of my Life (1989), which won an Outstanding Academic Book award from the American Library Association (ALA) in 1990.
Reviews
A welcome addition to the existing body of literature ... Succeeds in expanding on the fact-based approach that such books usually boast. * Journal of Design History *
Zarucchi serves up wonderful insights into the transatlantic tableware trade, which celebrates the influence of British design on American culture. * Rob Kesseler, Professor of Art, Design and Science at Central Saint Martins, UK *
A rigorous survey of Staffordshire printed tableware and its export to America, across three centuries of this special cultural relationship. * Stephen Dixon, Professor of Contemporary Crafts at Manchester School of Art, UK *
If you ever wondered where your dinnerware or antique souvenir plate was produced, this fascinating book is sure to inform you. * Anna Calluori Holcombe, Professor of Art at the University of Florida, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350359925
Author Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC