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Ezra Shales - Pitchers of American Life, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Pitchers of American Life

Art Within Reach

Av Ezra Shales

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Beskrivning
Through an exploration of the tactile pleasures of drinking vessels, Pitchers of American Life traces the role of these objects as representative art and collective tools—episodes of American history that resonate today in our everyday lives and yearnings for sociability and communion. Generously illustrated, and richly woven with personal memoir, discussion ranges from vessels within ancient cultures and religious and family rituals to the growth of mass production and contemporary consumer culture. Shales blends the social histories of art/artifacts with memories of working on a museum installation crew, as an educator, and as a shopper; in each chapter he interprets a single object as a revealing time capsule.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-02-19
  • Mått: 188 x 244 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 880 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781350386709
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Ezra Shales is Professor in the History of Art department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA. He teaches craft and design history and is the author of The Shape of Craft (2017) and Made in Newark: Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era (2010). He has also contributed chapters to publications such as Craft Economies (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Ceramics Reader (Bloomsbury, 2017). He has written widely on contemporary artists and modernist ceramicists, and his work has appeared in exhibition catalogues and journals such as Journal of Design History and Journal of Modern Craft.

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An illustrated and deeply personal essay [and] a vital reminder that art history should not only belong to grand aristocratic collections or immortal cathedral masterpieces, but must also descend to study the craftsmanship and industrial designs within everyone's reach.

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