Ceramics in the Victorian Era

Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature

Rachel Gotlieb, Michael Yonan (University of California at Davis USA)

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
21 September 2023

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Ceramics: artworks; Material culture

Series: Material Culture of Art and Design

This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in recent scholarship, Ceramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature

argues that the signification of a pot, a jug, or a tableware pattern can be more fully discerned in written and painted representations.

Across five case studies, the book explores a rhetoric and set of conventions that developed within the representation of ceramics, emerging in the late-18th century, and continuing in the Victorian period. Each case study begins with a textual passage exemplifying the outlined theme and closes with an object analysis to demonstrate how the fusing of text, image, and object are critical to attaining the period eye in order to better understand the metaphorical meanings of ceramics.

Essential reading not only for ceramics scholars, but also those of material culture, the book mines the rich and diverse archive of Victorian painting and literature, from the avant-garde to the sentimental, from the well-known to the more obscure, to shed light on the at once complex and simple implications of ceramics’ agencies at this time.

By: Rachel Gotlieb
Edited by: Michael Yonan (University of California at Davis USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350354845
ISBN 10: 1350354848
Series: Material Culture of Art and Design
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 21 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Gotlieb is the inaugural Ruth Rippon Curator of Ceramics at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, USA. Previously, she was Chief Curator at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada.

Reviews for Ceramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature

Focusing on the rich meanings that ceramics accrued through their use and subsequent representation in paintings and works of literature, this book embraces a radically new approach to the study of Victorian ceramics. * Penny Sparke, Director, Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University, London, UK * For anyone with an interest in the Victorian period this book is a treasure trove. Gotlieb offers a richly researched analysis of cultural messages conveyed by ceramics. The brown teapot, broken jug or willow pattern plate may be bit part players in art and literature, but they all tell powerful tales. * Moira Vincentelli, Emeritus Professor of Art History and Honorary Curator of Ceramics, Aberystwyth University, UK *