Join us in reading The White Road by Edmund de Waal.
In The White Road, artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate portrait of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or “white gold.” A potter who has been working with porcelain for more 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 begins by travelling to three “white hills”―sites in China, Germany, and England that are key to porcelain’s creation. But his search eventually leads him around the globe and reveals more 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.
This event takes at the ZMA in the 1st Floor ZMA Longaberger Research Library.
A limited number of copies are available to borrow from the ZMA. Please contact education coordinator Misty Johnson to check availability at education@zanesvilleart.org.
Thursday, May 30, 6–7 pm, at the ZMA. Free and open to the public. Register by May 29, 2024.
