The Portland Vase

Mania & Muse (1780-2023)

Crocker Art Museum, Rachel Gotlieb, Anne Forschler-Tarrasch

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Hirmer Verlag
20 August 2024

History of Art & Design Styles; Ceramic arts, pottery, glass

The Portland Vase, the ancient Roman glass cameo amphora held in the British Museum, has been replicated and reinterpreted countless times, becoming a global brand that has resonated with makers, collectors, and consumers for centuries.

Featuring more than 65 artworks, this book examines the role of brands in our culture and asks why Western Classical traditions dominate the artistic canon, and how that canon might be reconsidered and disrupted. Josiah Wedgwood, Viola Frey, Clare Twomey and Robert Lugo, among others engaged with the cameo-glass masterpiece. Their creative conceptual choices respond to complex histories of transfiguration and representation to create a new set of visual and cultural dialogues.

Text by: Anne Forschler-Tarrasch
Edited by: Crocker Art Museum, Rachel Gotlieb
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 254mm,
Weight: 880g
ISBN: 9783777441566
ISBN 10: 3777441562
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 20 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Rachel Gotlieb (PhD) is the Ruth Rippon Curator of Ceramics at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, USA. She is the author of Ceramics in the Victorian Era (1840- 1890): Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature (Bloomsbury 2023). Previously she was Chief Curator at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto Canada.