The cultural aesthetics of eighteenth-century porcelain
By: Alden Cavanagh and Michael E. Yonan.
Contributors: Yonan, Michael Elia.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754663867
Subjects: Porcelain -- 18th century; Art and society -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Introduction / Alden Cavanaugh and Michael Yonan -- Rethinking the arcanum : porcelain, secrecy, and the eighteenth-century culture of invention / Glenn Adamson -- The nature of artifice : French porcelain flowers and the rhetoric of the garnish / Mimi Hellman -- Igneous architecture : porcelain, natural philosophy, and the Rococo cabinet chinois / Michael Yonan -- Marketing celebrity : porcelain and theatrical display / Heather McPherson -- Balancing act : Andrea Brustolon's "La Forza" and the display of imported porcelain in eighteenth-century Venice / Erin J. Campbell -- The Queen's nécessaire / Alden Cavanaugh -- Porcelain, print culture, and mercantile aesthetics / Dawn Odell -- Sugar boxes and blackamoors : ornamental blackness in early Meissen porcelain / Adrienne L. Childs -- Ties that bind : relations between the Royal Academy of San Fernando and the Royal Porcelain Factory of the Buen Retiro / Andrew Schulz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.