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Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Jacques Chamay
Slatkine, 2022
In ancient Apulia (Puglia in Italian), the Iapygians, the indigenous people who lived on the fringes of the Greek cities, produced a rich pottery that stood apart from that of the colonists. Still relatively little studied and almost unknown outside a narrow circle of specialists, this pottery is astonishingly original. It is characterized by specifi c forms of enigmatic purpose – horned handles, zoomorphic heads with hallucinatory stares, solitary hands, spindly fi gures and polychromy - which plunge us into an unknown world, without savagery, yet very close to nature. Intended to accompany the dead in their tombs, the vases and figurines express a surprising vitality that testifies to a faith in the afterlife.
Although rigorous from an archaeological point of view, this book calls for a preface highlighting the unexpected modernity of this ancient art. The task was undertaken by a member of Picasso’s inner circle. The works presented here form part of a private collection, undoubtedly the most diverse of its kind and most complete on the subject.
ISBN 9782051028783
Collection de l'Ambassadeur et Madame Charles Müller
Monique Crick
5 Continents, 2010
La Chine connaît, dès l'Antiquité, un commerce maritime florissant. La collection de l'Ambassadeur et Mme Charles Müller, initiée lors de leur séjour en Indonésie de 197o à 1973, comprend près de trois cents céramiques chinoises d'exportation pour l'Asie du Sud-Est, datant du Ier au XVIIe siècle, dont un assortiment rare de porcelaines dites Swatow. Cet ensemble exceptionnel, légué à la Fondation Baur, met en exergue l'évolution et le rayonnement de la céramique chinoise, des grès solides du Ier siècle de notre ère aux porcelaines translucides et grès céladon des périodes Song et Yuan (Xie-XIVe siècles), jusqu'aux bleu et blanc des dynasties Yuan et Ming (XIVe-XVIIe siècles). L'introduction approfondie portant sur le commerce maritime et les routes céramiques en mer de Chine des origines à l'arrivée des Européens, ainsi que les essais en ouverture de chapitre et les notices détaillées, replacent cette remarquable collection dans son contexte historique et artistique. Ce livre, richement illustré, est un outil indispensable pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la céramique chinoise et à sa diffusion.
ISBN: 9788874394623
Français - 415 pages - 27,8 x 21,6 cm - 2,3 kg
Valerio Terraroli & Paola Franceschini
Skira, 2007
Beautifully illustrated and well documented with detailed technical entries, this volume surveys the production of Italian ceramic art through 500 objects. The essays examine the stylistic trends from the brilliant floral decorativism of the Tuscan ceramics by Galileo Chini, the extraordinary period of the 1920s and 1930s, as represented by Gio Ponti, Guido Andloviz, Giovanni Gariboldi, Pietro Meandri and Francesco Nonni, and the contamination by contemporary painting and sculpture, from the Futurists up to the first Informal pieces at the end of the second World War through the early works of Fontana, Leoncillo and Melotti. The book is filled with valuable information including biographical profiles of the artists, detailed descriptions of the manufacturers, a cataloguing of their back stamps, an up-to-date bibliography, and a technical glossary.Comprehensive and engrossing, the book is essential reading for collectors, antique experts, art scholars, students and anyone interested in ceramics.
ISBN: 9788876246869
English - 328 pages - 24 x 28cm - 1,4 kg
Gallimard, 2013
Après la guerre, installé dans le Midi de la France, Picasso construit un œuvre céramique qui marque encore par son ampleur et fascine par son inventivité. À Vallauris, au bord de cette mer Méditerranée pétrie de culture et de traditions, l'expérience de la céramique, en collaboration avec Suzanne et Georges Ramié dans leur atelier Madoura, est assurément l'occasion pour Picasso de renouer avec un héritage personnel et de revendiquer son identité culturelle méditerranéenne. Il inscrit dans le sol de ce territoire immense sa participation à une tradition qu'il invite dans ses formes et ses couleurs et qu'il assemble et reconstruit comme sa propre création du monde où ses proches côtoient les faunes, où les bacchanales se mêlent aux corridas et où chaque élément participe d'une extraordinaire magie de la connaissance et de l'invention. C'est avec plus de 150 pièces, pour la plupart inédites, sélectionnées avec le plus grand soin, que se découvre cette belle aventure entre Picasso et l'extraordinaire culture de la Méditerranée.
ISBN: 9782070141074
Français, 208 pages, 24 x 29 cm, 1,5 kg
Kelley Jo Elliott, Karol Wight, Elizabeth Everton, Tina Oldknow
Yale University Press, 2014
René Lalique, a master artist and designer of early 20th-century France, initially achieved fame for his jewelry creations that were widely admired and collected. He began experimenting with glass in the 1890s, and was so captivated by the material that he spent the rest of his career working with it exclusively. The glass objects that he designed, such as vases, ashtrays, tableware, and other household accessories, are now considered iconic representations of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. This publication traces Lalique’s distinguished career, including his early experimentation with glass in jewelry-making; his production of innovative perfume bottles, some of the first pieces he made entirely of glass; and the peak of his glassmaking career at the 1925 International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris. Hundreds of color photographs—including many dramatic, full-page images—spotlight individual pieces of glass and original wax and plaster models selected from the extensive collection of The Corning Museum of Glass. The book also draws on the Museum’s wealth of archival material on Lalique, including design drawings and photographs. This strikingly beautiful and informative volume is a testament to the singular allure of his enchanting glass.
English - 384 Pages - 25 cm x 2.5 cm x 25 cm - 2.3 KgISBN 9780300205114