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Melancholy Wedgwood - Iris Moon

Melancholy Wedgwood

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2024
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-54634-8 (ISBN)
CHF 45,90 inkl. MwSt
An experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity.

Melancholy Wedgwood traces the multiple strands in the life of the ceramic entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) to propose an alternative view of eighteenth-century England’s tenuous relationship to our own lives and times, amid the ruins of late-capitalist modernity. 

Through intimate vignettes and essays, and in writing at turns funny, sharp, and pensive, Iris Moon chips away at the mythic image of Wedgwood as singular genius, business titan, and benevolent abolitionist, revealing an amorphous, fragile, and perhaps even shattered life. In the process the book goes so far as to dismantle certain entrenched social and economic assumptions, not least that the foundational myths of capitalism might not be quite so rosy after all, and instead induce a feeling that could only be characterized as blue.

Iris Moon is Assistant Curator in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is the author of Luxury after the Terror and coeditor with Richard Taws of Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France. She teaches at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Introduction 9

1 Phantom Urn 27
2 A Body for Stubbs 75
3 Black and Blue 117
4 His Son’s Shadow 171

Postscript: Wasters and Rags 215
Acknowledgments 229
Notes 231
Index 239

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 85 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS., 14 COLOR PLATES
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 225 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Kunst / Musik / Theater
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 0-262-54634-5 / 0262546345
ISBN-13 978-0-262-54634-8 / 9780262546348
Zustand Neuware
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