Description
Transformative Jars analyses Asian ceramic vessels in a global context from historic times to the present day, examining them as agents of cultural change while highlighting design developments and technology transfer.
About the Author
Anna Grasskamp is Lecturer at the School of Art History at University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of Objects in Frames: Displaying Foreign Collectibles in Early Modern China and Europe (2019) and Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia: Shells, Bodies, and Materiality (2021). Anne Gerritsen is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK, and Chair of Asian Art at University of Leiden, Netherlands. She is the author of Ji'an Literati and the Local (2007), and The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World (2020). At Warwick, she co-directs the Global History and Culture Centre.
Reviews
This fascinating, multidisciplinary collection of essays on ceramic jars from, and in, global contexts illuminates ceramic trade, consumption, production and reception through the lens of a single form, demonstrating the agency of vessels as both containers and cultural objects. * Stacey Pierson, Reader in the History of Chinese Ceramics, SOAS, University of London, UK *
A brainstorm of a book, with scholars from a wide range of different fields, Transformative Jars gathers fresh studies on Asian ceramics. It not only totally reshapes our ideas on these most common and practical vessels but also greatly contributes to the interdisciplinary nature of material culture studies. * Ching-fei Shih, Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University, Taiwan *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350277434
Author Anna Grasskamp
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC