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News from a Radiant Future
Soviet Porcelain from the Collection of Craig H. and Kay A. Tuber
Ian Wardropper, Karen Kettering, John E. Bowlt, and Alison Hilton
Paper978-0-86559-106-6
$9.95
| Pub Date: | 1992 |
| Pages: | 96 pages |
| Dimensions: | 8.5 x 10.25 in. |
| Illustrations: | 75 black & white photographs |
Porcelain, politics, and propaganda
In a 1925 article on the post-Revolutionary production of the State Porcelain Factory in Leningrad, the ceramic artist Elena Danko described the factory's wares as "news from a radiant future." This volume is a catalog of the Art Institute of Chicago's 1992 exhibit of Soviet porcelain from the collection of Craig and Kay Tuber. The essays included in News from a Radiant Future discuss the relationship between Bolshevik propaganda and the state porcelain factory, as well as the larger tradition of Russian imperial ceramics. They also consider porcelain's connection to the Russian folk heritage and specifically to the October Revolution.
Ian Wardropper is a curator of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Karen Kettering is the Associate Curator of Russian Art, Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington, D.C. John Bowlt is professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Southern California. Alison Hilton is the Wright Family Professor of Art History and department chair at Georgetown University.
Subjects:
Architecture / Landscape Arch
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
