In his major new history of ceramics, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of Western civilisation from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millenia. Indeed, the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society. Greenhalgh addresses the story of the pots themselves, the culture of the ceramics, and their character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually every country and historical period, and have worked as a commodity servicing every social...
In his major new history of ceramics, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of Western civilisation from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core cr...