This amply illustrated book is the first ever on the life and work of distinguished Syracuse ceramist/porcelain-maker Adelaide Alsop Robineau (1865-1929). World renowned for her superb craftsmanship, she was awarded international prizes and had exhibitions in Italy, France, and the United States. Her magazine, Keramic Studio, enjoyed national circulation.
Associated with the Arts & Crafts Movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Robineau's exquisite porcelains reflect the most enduring qualities of the Art Nouveau decorative movement's interest in the total work of art: at once objet d'art, utilitarian vessel, and, in the form of tile, relief, or sculpture, architectural embellishment.
Among her most famous pieces are the Viking Ship Vase (1905), the intricate Scarab Vase (1910), the delicately colored Poppy Vase (1910), the subtly striated Snake Bowl (1919), and the monumental Urn of Dreams (1920).
The lead essay by Peg Weiss of Syracuse University provides new and essential background and biographical information. Martin Eidelberg of Rutgers University contributes an essay on the evolution of Robineau's early development as an artist. Ceramist and critic Frederick Hurten Rhead's essay is edited by Paul Evans, author of Art Pottery in the United States. Richard Zakin of State University of New York College at Oswego and studio potter Phyllis Ihrman discuss Robineau's porcelain technique, her unusual crystalline glazes, and her clay and glaze formulae.
More than a dozen color plates and 360 black and white photographs, including a complete, illustrated inventory of Robineau's works in public collections in the United States assembled by Leslie Gorman, beautifully reveal the life and talents of Syracuse's "unique glory," Adelaide Alsop Robineau.
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978-0-8156-2249-9 (9780815622499)
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Peg Weiss (d. 1996) was an art historian, research professor and leading scholar on the Russian modernist Wassily Kandinsky. She was Guest Curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and chief curator of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse in 1979 and 1980 and the curator of collections from 1975 to 1979. She was a Getty Scholar and recipient of an NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research for 1981-82. She was the author of many art historical articles, reviews, exhibit catalogs, and books of art history. She also served on the Landmark Preservation Board for the City of Syracuse.
