- Titel: The white road : journey into an obsession
- Erschienen: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
- Ausgabe: First American edition
- Umfang: 401 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
- ISBN: 9780374289263; 9780374709099
- Sprache: Englisch
- Schlagwörter: De Waal, Edmund / Travel ; De Waal, Edmund ; De Waal, Edmund 1964- ; Porcelain / History ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers ; ART / Ceramics ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary ; Porcelain ; Travel ; Geschichte ; Porzellan ; Reisebericht
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Inhalt:
Includes bibliographical references
Prologue: Jingdezhen, Venice, Dublin -- Part one: Jingdezhen. On shards -- Sorry -- Mount Kao-ling -- Making and decorating and glazing and firing -- How to make big pots -- Obligations -- Factory #72 -- Counterfeit. Forgery. Sham -- Ten thousand things -- The monk's cap ewer -- I read everything. I understand. Continue -- Setting out -- Men in black -- The emperor's tea set -- Part two: Versailles, Dresden. The latest news from china -- The porcelain pavilion -- Cream-coloured, provincial, and opaque -- Opticks -- The first mode of formation -- Gifts and promises and titles -- The shuffle of things -- A path, A vocation -- Extraordinarily curious -- There is no gold -- "Double, or even triple, amount of effort" -- Promises, promises -- Half translucent and milk white, like a narcissus -- The invention of Saxon porcelain -- Porcelain rooms, porcelain cities -- Part three: Plymouth. The birth of English porcelain -- Three scruples make a dram -- A Quaker! A Quaker! A Quirl! -- A greater rain -- Covering the ground -- Shillings, pebbles, or buttons -- Letters edifying and curious -- Readily stained in use -- china earth -- A shard, which, by leave, he sometimes broke -- Silences -- Tregonning Hill -- Brighter in white objects -- Thoughts of whiteness -- Part four: Ayoree Mountain, Etruria, Cornwall. An idea of perfect porcelain -- Ayoree Mountain C.F. -- On Englishness -- Endings, beginnings -- A cunning specification -- Gray's Elegy -- A journey into Cornwall -- Thoughts concerning emigration -- A road trip -- 1790 -- Part five: London, Jingdezhen, Dachau. Sign & wonders -- 1919 -- Red labour -- Bright earth, fired earth -- What whiteness, what candor -- Allach -- False sail -- Correct in orientation -- Another witness -- The Boehm Porcelain Co. of Trenton, New Jersey -- Coda: London, New York, London -- Breathturn
"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"-- - Medientyp: Buch
- Datenquelle: Bibliotheca Hertziana , Kubikat
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