Ceramic Art and Civilisation

Acknowledgements Prologue: A History in Shards CHAPTER -- 1. WHAT CERAMIC IS -- 1. Fundamentals -- 2. Stuff of the Earth -- 3. The Art of Heat -- 4. The Potter -- 5. Nomenclature and Culture -- 6. The Ceramic Continuum -- 7. Transformers: Classicism, Islam, China, and the Modern -- 8. The Discipline -- 9. Industry and the Levels of Production -- 10. Ubiquity: The Plastic of the Ancient World -- 11. Telling Stories -- 12. Civilisation, Power, and Domestic Life -- 13. Conclusion: Western Ceramic CHAPTER 2: THE VALUE OF THE GREEK POTTER -- 1. The World in Black and Red -- 2. Positioning the Pots -- 3. The Earlier Greek World -- 4. Reducing Iron and Oxygen -- 5. Who Were These People? -- 6. Secular Life -- 7. Anachronism, the Value, and the Price of Things -- 8. The Value and the Price of Things -- 9. Conclusion: The Spread of Red and Black CHAPTER 3: ROME AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD -- 1. The Feel of Roman Pots -- 2. Red Gloss -- 3. The Pots of Empire -- 4. Greece, Rome, and the Classical Idea -- 5. Standardisation -- 6. Dark, Light, an End and a Beginning -- 7. Europe: The Coarse and the Local -- 8. Revivalism and the Vernacular -- 9. Conclusion: The Classical Heritage CHAPTER 4: RENAISSANCES OF TIN -- 1. The Chemistry of Islam -- 2. Islam and Ceramic History -- 3. The Pottery Revolution -- 4. Islam in Europe -- 5. Renaissance Pots -- 6. Colour, Line and Life -- 7. Secular Life -- 8. Pottery and Painting -- 9. Quantity, Quality, and Status -- 10. The Arrival of the Meal -- 11. Sculptural Form -- 12. Italian Potters and Potteries -- 13. Renaissances -- 14. Conclusion: a European Ethos CHAPTER 5: THE ENLIGHTENED REIGN OF WHITE -- 1. Chinese Pots -- 2. Technology, Style, Confidence -- 3. Porcelain City -- 4. China in Europe -- 5. The Quest for a European Porcelain -- 6. The Porcelain Explosion -- 7. Blue, White, War, and Peace -- 8. Delftware -- 9. Frivolity and Melancholy: the Figurine Reinvented -- 10. The Rise of Staffordshire -- 11. Conclusion: Modern Whiteness CHAPTER 6: THE NATURAL AND THE INDIVIDUAL: LEAD, SLIP, STONE, SALT.