At the very end of the 13th century Marco Polo returned from Cathay, the old name for China. His "iridescent" tales (the adjective is Edmund de Waal's) revealed a world of wonders, treasures ...
Porcelain is my favorite book of the year so far. Benjamin Read's script has the sort of delicate, precise touch that the best, most disturbing, fairy tales have. The central friendship is delicately, ...
"If you make things out of porcelain clay, you exist in the present moment," writes Edmund de Waal in The White Road. A world-renowned ceramicist and installation artist before publishing The Hare ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. MEMOIR The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts EDMUND DE WAAL CHATTO & WINDUS, $35 Anybody who thinks the words spiritual and material ...
Talk about burying your lead, that gravest of journalistic sins. There is much that is attention-grabbing in de Waal’s love letter to porcelain, the fabled “white gold” of ceramics, as well as enough ...
In 1940, Bernard Leach, the founding father of modern British ceramics, published A Potter's Book. It is the classic primer for anyone interested in hand-thrown pottery, a unique art in which function ...
Pablo Picasso pronounced: “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” and Rukmal De Silva’s book seems to be her diary recording places she lived in and beauty that struck her, conveyed to ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
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