European Ceramics Circa 1900 David Conradsen (Edité par), Martin Eidelberg (Contributions), Jonathan Clancy (Contributions)

European art pottery around 1900 was a profoundly experimental and international movement. This handsome volume, published in conjunction with a major gift to the Saint Louis Art Museum, traces the movement’s development through more than 150 works by both celebrated and forgotten makers, offering a rare and nuanced view of modern ceramics across six regions - France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Austria and Italy. This richly illustrated catalogue, edited by David Conradsen, celebrates a major gift of more than 150 examples of European art pottery donated to the Saint Louis Art Museum by the scholar and collector Dr. Martin Eidelberg. Made across continental Europe between about 1880 and 1930, these works demonstrate the extraordinary variety of form, surface, and ornament realised over a fifty-year span. Many date from around the turn of the twentieth century and reveal how artists, designers, and manufacturers responded to the so-called ‘Cult of Nature’, filtered through p