Title & Author:

The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory : Alexandre Brongniart and the triumph of art and industry, 1800-1847 / [essays by] Tamara Preaud [and others] ; Derek E. Ostergard, editor.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York by Yale University Press, [1997]
©1997

Description:

416 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
" ... published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory ... held at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts from October 17, 1997 to February 1, 1998"--Title page verso.
" ... published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Sevres Porcelain Manufactory ... held at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts from October 17, 1997 to February 1, 1998."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-408) and index.
France between the Revolutions, 1789-1848 / Laurie Dahlberg -- Alexandre Brongniart: scholar and member of the Institut de France / Anne Lajoix -- Brongniart as administrator / Tamara Préaud -- Brongniart as technician / Tamara Préaud -- Brongniart and the art of ceramics / Tamara Préaud -- The nature and goals of production at the Sèvres manufactory / Tamara Préaud -- The stained-glass and painting-on-glass workshop at Sèvres / Karole Bezut -- Sculpture at Sèvres during the Brongniart administration / Tamara Préaud -- Brongniart as taxonomist and museologist: the significance of the Musée Céramique at Sèvres / Sylvie Millasseau -- Two controversial decisions by Alexandre Brongniart / Antoine d'Albis -- Clay, pedagogy, and progress: the Enquête de Préfets, 1805-1810 / Béatrice Pannequin -- Catalogue of the exhibition / Tamara Préaud.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The tumultuous years of the French Revolution left France's prestigious decorative arts industries poised on the brink of ruin. It was not until after the fall of the monarchy and the ascendancy of the Consular and Empire under Napoleon that they began to recover so that by the middle of the nineteenth century they stood at the pinnacle of their achievement. This book is the first in-depth study of the renowned porcelain works at Sevres during its virtual rebirth under the 47-year direction of the scientist, teacher, and administrator Alexandre Brongniart. Some 110 working drawings from the Sevres Archive are reproduced here for the first time in color. They celebrate the high skill of the artists whose work often documented contemporary events in France. There are table services in the "Egyptian" and "Etruscan" taste as well as individual pieces that recall Napoleonic military campaigns. There are also exquisite Neoclassical decorations using motifs such as birds, butterflies, and insects that reflect the century's early fascination with the natural sciences. The repertoire of nineteenth-century eclecticism is evident in the output of Sevres from the revival of Gothic and renaissance motifs to the outburst of naturalism. Eleven essays by leading authorities assess this dynamic period. This book is the catalogue for an exhibit at the Bard Graduate Center in New York city, which runs from mid-October 1997 to January 1998.--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

0300073380
9780300073386
0300074255 (pbk.)
9780300074253 (pbk.)

Subject:

Brongniart, Alexandre, 1770-1847 Exhibitions.
Brongniart, Alexandre, 1770-1847.
Brongniart, Alexandre, (1770-1847) Catalogues d'exposition.
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres Exhibitions.
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres.
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (France)
Sèvres porcelain Exhibitions.
Porcelain, French France Sèvres 19th century Exhibitions.
Sèvres porcelain.
Porcelain, French France Sèvres 19th century.
Porcelaine de Sèvres.
Porcelaine française France Sèvres 19e siècle.
Porcelaine de Sèvres Expositions.
Porcelaine française France Sèvres 19e siècle Expositions.
Porcelain, French
Porselein.
Fabrieken.
Porcelaine 19e siècle France Catalogues d'exposition.
Porcelain 19th century France Sèvres.
France Sèvres

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Préaud, Tamara, curator, author.
Ostergard, Derek E., editor, project director, author of introduction.
Preaud, Tamara.
Ostergard, Derek E.
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, organizer, host institution.
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, organizer.
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts

Alexandre Brongniart and the triumph of art and industry, 1800-1847

Holdings:

Location: Library main 197070
Call No.: ID NK4210.M28757.S48; ID:98-B320
Status: Available