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Ceramics and the museum
Title:
Ceramics and the museum
Author:
Breen, Laura, author.
ISBN:
9781350047822

9781350047846
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
ix, 240 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Abstract:
Ceramics and the Museum interrogates the relationship between artoriented ceramic practice and museum practice in Britain since 1970. Laura Breen examines the identity of ceramics as an art form, drawing on examples of work by artist-makers such as Edmund de Waal and Grayson Perry; addresses the impact of policy making on ceramic practice; traces the shift from object to project in ceramic practice, and the evolution of ceramic sculpture; explores how museums facilitated multisensory engagement with ceramic material and process, and analyses the exhibition as a text in itself. Proposing the notion that 'gestures of showing,' such as exhibitions and installation art, can be read as statements, she examines what they tell us about the identity of ceramics at particular moments in time. Highlighting the ways in which these gestures have constructed ceramics as a category of artistic practice, Breen argues that they reveal gaps between narrative and practice, which can be used to deconstruct it too.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-226) and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10900197 N72 A77 B74 ysh
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