Porcelain

Revolutionary Ceramics: Soviet Porcelain, 1917-27 (Hardcover) by Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky. 1992.

An album of 150 illustrations of the most famous Russian ceramics artists created from 1917 to 1929. These works are beuatifully detailed, performed with great love and mastery of the art, which is evident in the results, especially compared with today's consumer mass production we are all used to seeing all around.

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News From a Radiant Future: Soviet Porcelain from the Collection of Craig H. and Kay A. Tuber. by Ian Wardropper. Art Inst of Chicago, 2005. Paperback, 96 pages.

In a 1925 article on the post-Revolutionary production of the State Porcelain Factory in Leningrad, the ceramic artist Elena Danko described the factory's wares as "news from a radiant future." This volume is a catalogue of the Art Institute of Chicago's 1992 exhibit of Soviet porcelain from the collection of Craig and Kay Tuber. The essays included in News from a Radiant Future discuss the relationship between Bolshevik propaganda and the state porcelain factory, as well as the larger tradition of Russian imperial ceramics. They also consider porcelain's connection to the Russian folk heritage and specifically to the October Revolution.