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THE ARTFUL TEAPOT
Garth Clark
Tea, Thé, Cha, Tee, Té is universal—and universally appealing. For millennia it has inspired the making of exquisite objets d'art, above all the grande dame of its abundant paraphernalia-the spouted, steaming engine of hospitality, the teapot. TheArtful Teapot examines the chameleonlike form of the object and how it has become not only an icon but an inventive vehicle for artistic expression. The teapot has drawn widespread attention from the world's leading designers and artists beeause it is what the French sculptor and installation artist, Arman, calls one of the key "fetish" objeetsof ou r time.
More than 250 teapots are reproduced in color in this collection, in which the subject's 500-year history is represented by key works from Yixing (birthplace of the teapot), Meissen, Minton, Wedgwood, and other producers, providing the historical background for the book's main focus: the créations of many of the twentieth-century's best-known painters,... Tovább

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THE ARTFUL TEAPOT
Garth Clark
Tea, Thé, Cha, Tee, Té is universal—and universally appealing. For millennia it has inspired the making of exquisite objets d'art, above all the grande dame of its abundant paraphernalia-the spouted, steaming engine of hospitality, the teapot. TheArtful Teapot examines the chameleonlike form of the object and how it has become not only an icon but an inventive vehicle for artistic expression. The teapot has drawn widespread attention from the world's leading designers and artists beeause it is what the French sculptor and installation artist, Arman, calls one of the key "fetish" objeetsof ou r time.
More than 250 teapots are reproduced in color in this collection, in which the subject's 500-year history is represented by key works from Yixing (birthplace of the teapot), Meissen, Minton, Wedgwood, and other producers, providing the historical background for the book's main focus: the créations of many of the twentieth-century's best-known painters, sculptors, and ceramists. In the accompanying text, the pre-eminent scholar of modern ceramics, Garth Clark, provides an analysis of these deeply appealing works that is as provocative, playful, and profound as the teapots themselves.
Clark shows us teapots that balance form, surface and function in search of beauty; revolutionary teapots that seek-fascinatingly but fruitlessly-to improve on the most perfect of inventions; teapots inspired by natural forms or made from surprising materials—dollar bills, beads and olive oil cans, among them; teapots that take transport as their subject, or animais, or humans; teapots used as a context for story-telling, propaganda or politics; and, not least, tea for art's sake-pots far removed from function, where tea evaporates and imagination replaces the fragrant leaf as content.
The Artful Teapot celebrates the design and artistie beauty of the teapot through five centuries of enjoyment and use.
Here are over 250 enchanting teapots that balance form, surface, and function in search of beauty. Teapots inspired by natural forms, teapots made from surprising materials like dollar bills, glass beads, and olive oil cans, teapots with a sense of humor, teapots used as a format for politics or propaganda, teapots using animals or people as their subject, and—last but not least-teapots created purely for art's sake. Featured in The Artful Teapot are historie pots from such important producers as Meissen, Minton, and Wedgwood, and modern creations of a diverse group of designers from many countries. The accompanying text by Garth Clark contains the same admixture of playfulness and profundity as do the teapots themselves-and the family of beverages that was their inspiration! Vissza