The White Road

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Extraordinary new non fiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with Amber Eyes.In The White Road , bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or white gold A potter who has been working with porcelain for than forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and coveted and that would help him understand the clay s mysterious allure From his studio in London, he starts by travelling to three white hills sites in China, Germany and England that are key to porcelain s creation But his search eventually takes him around the globe and reveals than a history of cups and figurines rather, he is forced to confront some of the darkest moments of twentieth century history.Part memoir, part history, part detective story, The White Road chronicles a global obsession with alchemy, art, wealth, craft and purity In a sweeping yet intimate style that recalls The Hare with Amber Eyes , de Waal gives us a singular understanding of the spectrum of porcelain and the mapping of desire. Read The White Road Author Edmund de Waal – kino-fada.fr BOTWhttp www.bbc.co.uk programmes b06bgbvzDescription In The White Road, bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or white gold A potter who has been working with porcelain forthan forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and c...As a ceramicist who has worked with clay for the past 25 years creating slender and delicate pots, all things white are an passion for de Waal This book is a physical and spiritual journey to the places and origins of these materials that fuse together to create the translucent, ethereal material that is porcelain His desire is to hold the raw materials in his own hands, to climb the hills where the white earth is dug from, to possess a pot made that place.China was the place where porcelain w As a ceramicist who has worked with clay for the past 25 years creating slender and delicate pots, all things white are an passion for de Waal This book is a physical and spiritual journey to the places and origins of these materials that fuse together to create the translucent, ethereal material that is porcelain His desire is to hold the raw materials in his ...This is a really unique book When you first start reading it, you think it is just about porcelain this is of a lot of interest to me, as both of my parents used to be potters , but, once you start reading the book, it turns into ... From BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Author of The Hare With Amber Eyes potter Edmund de Waal s new book on the history of porcelain.On a personal pilgrimage to the countries and people who make porcelain, the author s first stop is China and Jingdezhen, the city of porcelain.Episode 2 5 The author travels back in in time to Dresden and explores the dramatic events which led to the creation of European porcelain.Episode 3 5 Imprisoned in Meissen castle, young alchemist, Johann Freidrich Bottger From BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Author of The Hare With Amber Eyes potter Edmund de Waal s new book on the history of porcelain.On...His bestseller The Hare With Amber Eyes A Family s Century of Art and Loss is an all time favourite of mine and I gave it five stars without hesitation When I learned that he d written a new book, this time about porcelain, I bought it immediately And I ve tried and tried and tried to like it, to get through it But at page 278 I gave up What s wrong with this one It s not the porcelain as a subject I find it fascinating But the build up of the book doesn t work for me ...After reading De Waal s The Hare with the Amber Eyes I was intrigued to read this book on porcelain I know he is a potter, I ve looked up his work It s good, very plain, but very beautiful too This book is about the history of porcelain, where it comes from and why white is so attractive to us For the most part it s quite an interesting read But there are parts that can get a bit boring Unless you are a massive porcelain pottery fan, I think most people would find it hard going I really e After reading De Waal s The Hare with the Amber Eyes I was intrigued to read this book on porcelain I know he is a potter, I ve looked up his work It s good, very plain, but very beautiful too This book is about the history ...It had been a while since I had read a good non fiction and I am very picky when it comes to this genre The book has to be a solid one or I will just drop it and not read further Life is too short to read badly written books I loved Edmund de Waal s earlier book The Hare with the Amber Eyes Please read it if you haven t already Trust me, you will love it as well This is when I received his new book to read The White Road Journey into an Obsession How does one describe this book The It had been a while since I had read a good non fiction and I am very picky when it comes to this genre The book has to be a solid one or I will just drop it and not read further Life is too short to read badly written books I loved Edmund de Waal s earlier book The Hare with the Amber Eyes Please read it if you haven t already Trust me, you will love it as well This is when I received his new book to read The White Road Journey ...If you share de Waal s obsession with porcelain, you will be fascinated I do I am Plain pottery is perfectly serviceable, you can drink your tea out of it just fine The plates hold dinner just fine So why this centuries long pursuit of a plate you can hold up to the light and see the shadow of your hand through it, that you can tap smartly with a pencil and it rings like a crystal bellSome of the stories are well known, like the mad scientist and the wacky apothecary assistant virtually If you share de Wa...You don t have to be a ceramic artist to relish this book, but it probably helps I savoured every page knowing that as I turned each one, I would be re reading it at least onetime in order to squeezevalue from it Oh forbooks of this ilkGagni res Fonthill vase

The White Road
  • English
  • 19 March 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 416 pages
  • 0307362108
  • Edmund de Waal
  • The White Road