and last but not least, the teapot created purely for art’s sake-pots removed from function, where tea evaporates and imagination replaces the fragrant leaf as content. teapots using animals or people as their subject. teapots used as a format for politics or propaganda. teapots made from surprising materials like dollar bills, glass beads, and soda cans. revolutionary teapots seeking-fascinatingly but fruitlessly-to improve on this most perfect invention. Here are artful teapots that balance form, surface, and function in search of beauty. Readers will find captivating examples from Yixing-the birthplace of the teapot-as well as such famous producers as Meissen, Minton, Wedgwood, and others. The Artful Teapot features, in full, lavish color, more than 200 enchanting teapots representing its 500-year history of enjoyment and use. This delightful book celebrates the chameleon-like form of the teapot, and how it is considered not only an icon for hospitality but also an inventive vehicle for artistic expression. In fact, the teapot has drawn widespread attention from the world’s leading designers and artists for centuries because it is what French sculptor Arman calls one of the key objects of our time. Based on its universal appeal and everyday use, tea has inspired the creation of exquisite objets d’art above all, the spouted, steaming engine of hospitality: the teapot.
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