Cover image for The ceramics reader
The ceramics reader
Title:
The ceramics reader
Author:
Petrie, Kevin, 1970- editor.
ISBN:
9781472584434

9781472584427
Publication Information:
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Physical Description:
xviii, 592 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Contents:
General Introduction / Livingstone and Petrie -- Pen and Kiln: a brief overview of modern ceramics and critical writing / Garth Clark -- Section One: Ceramics: Materiality and Metaphor. Section Introduction / Livingstone and Petrie -- Why are ceramics important? Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Clay as elemental wholeness / Kenneth R. Beittel -- The existential base / Philip Rawson -- Appreciating ceramics or so much more than just an egg cup or a milk jug / Ian Wilson -- Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon) / Silvia Forni -- Ceramics and art criticism / Janet Koplos -- Death and Clay: Cultural and personal Interpretations in ceramics / Christopher Garcia and Tomaru Haruna -- Ceramics and metaphor. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Heart like a wheel: What is Hollywood telling us about working with clay? / Sarah Archer -- Analogy and metaphor in ceramic art / Philip Rawson -- Metaphors, Myths and Making Pots / Laurel Birch Aguilar -- Sculptural Vessels across the great divide: Tony Cragg's Laibe and the metaphors of clay / Imogen Racz -- Section Two: Ceramics in Context. Section Introduction / Livingstone and Petrie -- Historical Precedents. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- The function of decoration: Wedgwood / Herbert Read -- The Arts and Crafts Movement: GB, USA, Germany and Austria, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Hungary and Italy / Emmanuel Cooper -- A Matter of Tradition: A Debate Between Maguerite Wildenhain and Bernard Leach / Brent Johnson -- Contemporary design of the 1950s: Rie and Coper in context / Lesley Jackson -- Studio Ceramics. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Studio Pottery / Tanya Harrod -- Towards a standard / Bernard Leach -- Towards a Double Standard? / Edmund De Waal -- Re/inventing the wheel: the origins of studio pottery / Julian Stair -- The Archie Bray Foundation: A Legacy Reframed / Patricia Failing -- Studio Ceramics: The end of the story? / Jeffrey Jones -- Sculptural Ceramics. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- A Rough Equivalent: Sculpture and Pottery in the post war period / Jeffrey Jones -- California (Funk) / Scott A. Shields -- Cooled Matter: Ceramic Sculpture in the expanded field / Mitchell Merback -- The New Ceramic Presence / Rose Slivka -- Metamorphosis: the culture of ceramics / Martina Margetts -- Antony Gormley in conversation with James Putnam / James Putnam -- Ceramics and Installation. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Ceramics and Installation / Emma Shaw -- Ceramic Installation Towards a self/definition / Ruth Chambers -- Multiplicity, Ambivalence and ceramic installation art / Glenn R. Brown -- Theoretical Perspectives. Introductory Summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Reconsidering 'The Pissoir Problem' / Bruce Metcalf -- The Modern Pot / Glenn Adamson -- Social Complexity and the historiography of ceramic / Paul Greenhalgh -- Speak for yourself / Edmund De Waal -- Object Theory / Paul Mathieu -- Between a toilet and a hard place / Garth Clark -- Conceptual and post studio practice. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Manufacturing Validity: the ceramic work in the age of conceptual production / Lizzie Zucker Saltz -- On Dirt / Ingrid Schaffner -- Contemporary Clay / Clare Twomey -- Elastic/Expanding; Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics / Jo Dahn -- Extending Vocabularies: Distorting the ceramic familiar--clay and the performative 'other' / Andrew Livingstone -- ...And into the Fire: post studio ceramics in Britain / Glenn Adamson -- Section Three: Key Themes. Section Introduction / Livingstone and Petrie -- Gender, Sexuality and Ceramics. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Gender, Identity and studio ceramics / Moira Vincentelli -- Queering the Museum / Matt Smith -- The Personal Political Pots of Grayson Perry / Louisa Buck & Marjan Boot -- Identity and Ceramics. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Body language: ceramics to challenge the white world / Ruth Park -- Rubber and Clay: South African material 'aftermodern' / Elisabeth Perrill -- Plunder Me Baby--Kukuli Velarde and the ceramics of Taiwan's first nations: Virtual Ventriloquism as articulated in the 2014 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale / Wendy Gers -- Image. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Ceramics and painting: an expanded field of enquiry / Veronika Horlik -- Paul Scott's Confected landscapes and Contemporary Vignettes / Amy Gogarty -- The body. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Embracing Sculptural Ceramics: a lived experience of touch in art / Bonnie Kemske -- Vicious Figurines: Penny Byrne's Ceramic Advocacy / Inga Walton -- The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary Ceramics / Peter Selz -- Ceramics in education. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- The influence of educational institutions on contemporary ceramics / Andrea Gill -- The Digital Future: Reimagining Ceramic Education in the 21st Century / Holly Hanessian -- Ceramics, industry and new technologies. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Transitions: A brief history of Modern Ceramics / Marek Cecula -- National Identity and the problem of style in the post-war British ceramics Industry / Graham McLaren -- Continuity or Collapse: Ceramics in a post-industrial era / Jorunn Veiteberg -- The UK marketing strategy in response to globalization c1990-2010 / Neil Ewins -- Meta-making and me / Ingrid Murphy -- Museum, site and display. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie -- Museums and the interstices of domestic life: Re-articulating domestic space in contemporary ceramics practice / Laura Gray -- The museum as medium specific muse / Ezra Shales -- Environment, art, ceramics, and site specificity / Brad Evan Taylor -- When forms become attitude--A consideration of the adoption by an artist of ceramic display as narrative device and symbolic landscape / Mike Tooby -- Why Clay? / James Beighton and Emily Hesse -- Civic ceramics: shifting the centre of meaning / Natasha Mayo and Melania Warwick -- Ceramics as an archaeology of the contemporary past / Christopher McHugh -- Re-defining ceramics through exhibitionary practice / Laura Breen.
Abstract:
"The Ceramics Reader is an impressive collection of essays and text extracts which covers all the key areas of ceramics -- both past and present. It focuses on thoughts and discussions within ceramics from the last 20-30 years in particular, but also gives the reader a broad overview of the last 100 years. One aim of the book is to introduce contemporary debates, raise awareness and stimulate thought rather than to present a closed case for examination. Consequently the essays or extracts present different approaches to give a rounded viewpoint. Beginning with essential questions such as 'Why are ceramics important?' it also considers the field of ceramics from a range of perspectives -- as a cultural activity, ceramics as metaphor, where it sits within arts and crafts, within gender discussions, ceramics as sculpture, the use of ceramics as a vehicle for propaganda, ceramics within industry, within museums, and most recently as part of the 'expanded field' as a Fine Art medium and vehicle for ideas. The texts come from a wide variety of sources -- books, magazines, journals, papers presented at conferences and online journals, as well as some newly commissioned material never before published, to present an international and comprehensive look at ceramics. The book is divided into three main sections and each has a short introduction by the editors to place the chosen texts in context and explain the selections, as well as pointing to any strong threads or issues within the section and offering a point of view. This book is ideal for ceramic students, but will also appeal to anyone wishing to gain a broad overview and understanding of the world of ceramics." -- Publisher's description.
Subject Term:
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10703528 NK4240 C334 ysh
Holds: Copies: