Robert Finlay, Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, is the author of Politics in Renaissance Venice and Venice Besieged: Politics and Diplomacy in the Italian Wars, 1494-1534.
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Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it was used to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, Persia, and Iraq. Spanish galleons delivered porcelain to Peru and Mexico while aristocrats in Europe ordered tableware from Canton. The book tells the fascinating story of how porcelain became a vehicle for the transmission and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs across vast distances--from Japan and Java to Egypt and England. It not only illustrates how porcelain influenced local artistic traditions but also shows how it became deeply intertwined with religion, economics, politics, and social identity. Bringing together many strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes, this is a history of cross-cultural exchange focused on an exceptional commodity that illuminates the emergence of what is arguably the first genuinely global culture.
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"The Pilgrim Art is a remarkable work of synthesis. With porcelain as his focus, Robert Finlay puts the histories of China, India, the Islamic world, Europe, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and East Africa into dialogue with one another. In highlighting the interactions, exchanges, and influences that linked these regions, he makes a distinctive contribution to understanding of the global past. He blends the histories of production, distribution, and consumption with the histories of technology, trade, and art, as well as social history, commodity history, cultural history, political history, and literary history. The result is a rich stew of historical analysis combining close attention to detail with graceful writing and a clear focus on global themes. The Pilgrim Art ranks as an example of contemporary world history at its finest." --Jerry H. Bentley, Editor of the Journal of World History and author of Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times
"Finlay traces the rise and fall of Chinese porcelain across global flows of desire, artistic symbols and styles, innovation, espionage, competition and colonial power. This is commodity history as it should be written--exciting, engaging, with a masterful attention to regional context, be it France, Japan, India, or the Swahili Coast."--Stewart Gordon, author of When Asia was the World
發表於2024-11-14
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無意間看見蔡康永推薦,就買瞭。 其實,我對瓷器一竅不通,並沒有報希望能看的明白。然而,我卻越看越上癮瞭。這根本就不是一本介紹青花瓷的書,而是一部世界史。從瓷器的製作、取材、紋樣、銷售的過程中,去看那段曆史的滄桑,滋味雜陳。感謝此書,讓我瞭解曾經瞭中國,曾經的...
評分1712年,法國傳教士殷弘緒來到景德鎮,他立刻被震驚瞭。 這裏有100萬人,3000座窯,到處是挑夫試圖擠過街頭的呐喊,“如同無時無刻不置身於狂歡節”,工人們晝夜忙碌,“萬杵之聲”令人夜不成眠,整座城市猶如巨大的火爐,被形象地稱為“四時雷電鎮”。 整整3個世紀,中國平...
評分從前言就能看齣這是一本專傢寫的書,可不像國內那些個搖頭晃腦、在什麼鑒寶會上2b兮兮的半吊子。書的開端寫1598年西班牙、葡萄牙的雙料國王飛利浦2世下葬,他生前給自己選的棺木不是大理石,不是水晶石,也不是黃金,而是當年葡萄牙最大的海外貿易戰船的龍骨闆。由此引齣16世紀...
評分很棒的書,16世紀開始陶瓷纔進入西方人的視綫中,陶器是世界普遍發生的,但是由於中國獨特的黃土高原,使得中國的冶金與製陶工藝相輔相成,得以快速發展,最終由於中國有高嶺土使得中國有瞭瓷器。法國的耶穌會士殷弘緒偷學瞭中國的陶瓷製造技術,但他們傳遞迴去的消息也使得歐...
評分無意間看見蔡康永推薦,就買瞭。 其實,我對瓷器一竅不通,並沒有報希望能看的明白。然而,我卻越看越上癮瞭。這根本就不是一本介紹青花瓷的書,而是一部世界史。從瓷器的製作、取材、紋樣、銷售的過程中,去看那段曆史的滄桑,滋味雜陳。感謝此書,讓我瞭解曾經瞭中國,曾經的...
圖書標籤: 陶瓷 藝術史 英文原版 文化 曆史 茶具 藝術 美國
總算看完瞭,但是讀書報告怎麼都擠不齣來... = =
評分總算看完瞭,但是讀書報告怎麼都擠不齣來... = =
評分總算看完瞭,但是讀書報告怎麼都擠不齣來... = =
評分一本厚書說盡瞭瓷器的前世今生。廣度和深度都超齣我的預期,還有那參考書目的長列錶。內容很好,寫得也不能說不好,就是如果寫得再好一些,會使得這些內容讀起來更加有趣。
評分寫得真好,原先是做文藝復興威尼斯的,能跨界做這個,語言是基本功,恐怕也是有一段奇遇~!
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