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Portland Vase

Mania & Muse (1780-2023)


  • Hirmer
  • Expo: 09/06/2024 - 15/09/2024, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento CA
  • by Crocker Art Museum
The Portland Vase, the ancient Roman glass cameo amphora held in the British Museum, has been replicated and reinterpreted countless times, becoming a global brand that has resonated with makers, collectors, and consumers for centuries. Featuring more than 65 artworks, this book examines the role of brands in our culture and asks why Western Classical traditions dominate the artistic canon, and how that canon might be reconsidered and disrupted.

ISBN 9783777441566 | EN | HB
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Publisher Hirmer
ISBN 9783777441566
Author(s) Crocker Art Museum
Publication date June 2024
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 254 x 254 mm
Illustrations 70 col.ill.
Pages 112
Language(s) English ed.
Exhibition Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento CA
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The Portland Vase, the ancient Roman glass cameo amphora held in the British Museum, has been replicated and reinterpreted countless times, becoming a global brand that has resonated with makers, collectors, and consumers for centuries.

Featuring more than 65 artworks, this book examines the role of brands in our culture and asks why Western Classical traditions dominate the artistic canon, and how that canon might be reconsidered and disrupted. Josiah Wedgwood, Viola Frey, Clare Twomey and Robert Lugo, among others engaged with the cameo-glass masterpiece. Their creative conceptual choices respond to complex histories of transfiguration and representation to create a new set of visual and cultural dialogues.