Ceramic, Art and Civilisation

"Full of surprises [and] evocative." The Spectator
"Passionately written." Apollo
"An extraordinary accomplishment." Edmund de Waal
"Monumental." Times Literary Supplement
"An epic reshaping of ceramic art." Crafts
"An important book." The Arts Society Magazine

In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, r...