Contemporary British Ceramics And The Influence Of Sculpture

Author : Laura Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351626408

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This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery. This development has been accompanied (and perhaps propelled) by the kind of critical discussion usually reserved for the 'higher' discipline of sculpture. Ceramics is now encountering and colliding with sculpture, both formally and intellectually. Laura Gray examines what this means for the old hierarchies between art and craft, the identity of the potter, and the character of a discipline tied to a specific material but wanting to participate in critical discussions that extend far beyond clay.

Author : Laura Gray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351626415

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Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture by Laura Gray Pdf

This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery. This development has been accompanied (and perhaps propelled) by the kind of critical discussion usually reserved for the 'higher' discipline of sculpture. Ceramics is now encountering and colliding with sculpture, both formally and intellectually. Laura Gray examines what this means for the old hierarchies between art and craft, the identity of the potter, and the character of a discipline tied to a specific material but wanting to participate in critical discussions that extend far beyond clay.

Author : Ashley Thorpe
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785008894

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Contemporary British Ceramics by Ashley Thorpe Pdf

Ceramics is one of the most vibrant and engaging fields of contemporary British art. This lavishly illustrated book reviews the work of twenty-two artists and celebrates their contribution to its rich landscape. Written from a collector's point of view, it explores what contemporary ceramic objects can mean, what emotions they evoke and how artists draw upon different facets of the art and crafts worlds in their work. A vital visual and critical resource, Contemporary British Ceramics showcases British ceramics as a compelling interdisciplinary practice, attuned to the contemporary world. Featuring more than 280 images, it encourages readers to look beneath the surface, to discover the vibrant contribution that British ceramics makes to the broad field of contemporary art.

Author : Imogen Hart,Claire Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501341274

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Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe by Imogen Hart,Claire Jones Pdf

By foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative, this volume of essays offers a model for a more integrated form of art history writing. Through distinct case studies, from a seventeenth-century Danish altarpiece to contemporary British ceramics, it brings to centre stage makers, objects, concepts and spaces that have been marginalized by the enforcement of boundaries within art and design discourse. These essays challenge the classed, raced and gendered categories that have structured the histories and languages of art and its making. Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of sculpture and the decorative arts and the methodologies of art history.

Author : Ashley Thorpe
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780719842436

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Contemporary British Studio Pottery by Ashley Thorpe Pdf

Pots have existed across the world and in different cultures for thousands of years. This volume explores how contemporary makers use the ancient language of the pot to convey contemporary ideas, from the sculptural and painterly to the ecological and satirical. This beautifully produced book is a visually rich and critically in-depth focus on the work of twenty-four potters. A companion volume to Contemporary British Ceramics: Beneath the Surface, it reveals how pots can be extraordinarily powerful forms of expression.

Author : Laura Breen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781350047860

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Ceramics and the Museum by Laura Breen Pdf

Ceramics and the Museum interrogates the relationship between art-oriented 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 in 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 in turn can be used to deconstruct the art.

Author : Paul Rice
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015058764732

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British Studio Ceramics by Paul Rice Pdf

This detailed and comprehensive survey charts the entire history of British studio ceramics from the emergence of modern ceramics from the Victorian factories around 1900 to the wide variety of extraordinary work being produced today. All the best-known potters such as Leach, Hamada, Cardew, Rie, and Coper are examined in depth in terms of their different areas of interest and influence. An extensive appendix gives information on 200 leading makers with their identifying marks and cross-references with a list of museums where their work can be seen. Lavishly illustrated throughout with some 250 color photographs, this is a book for the collector needing in-depth information or for those who just want an introduction to this important and beautiful work.

Author : Alla Myzelev
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351724937

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Exhibiting Craft and Design by Alla Myzelev Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: the persistence of the White Cube paradigm -- 2 Textiles on display, 1941-1969 -- 3 Crafting Koreanness: how Korean national identity became interwoven with the handmade object in the twentieth century -- 4 Within the guilded cage -- 5 Curatorial strategies that remain true to the craft object -- 6 Quiet revolution: contemporary curatorial approaches to ceramics in the White Cube -- 7 Jewellery can be worn too -- 8 Store/museum -- 9 'I could have visited Ikea for free': design museums and a complicated relationship with commerce -- 10 Outside the White Cube -- 11 Afterword: breaking free? -- Index

Author : Edit Tóth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781351062442

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Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art by Edit Tóth Pdf

This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive method, which makes it possible to consider Bauhaus-related works in an unconventional light. Edit Toth argues that focusing on the functionalist approach of the Bauhaus has hindered scholars from properly understanding its design work. With a global scope and under-studied topics, the book advances current scholarly discussions concerning the relationship between image technologies and the body by calling attention to the materiality of image production and strategies of re-channeling image culture into material processes and physical body space, the space of dimensionality and everyday activity.

Author : American Museum of Ceramic Art
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780981672878

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Friendship Forged in Fire: British Ceramics in America by American Museum of Ceramic Art Pdf

Author : Sarah Horton,Victoria Mitchell
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789387827

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Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life by Sarah Horton,Victoria Mitchell Pdf

This collection explores critical and visual practices through the lens of interactions and intersections between pattern and chaos. The dynamic of the inter-relationship between pattern and chaos is such as to challenge disciplinary boundaries, critical frameworks and modes of understanding, perception and communication, often referencing the in-between territory of art and science through experimentation and visual scrutiny. A territory of 'pattern-chaos' or 'chaos-pattern' begins to unfold. Drawing upon fields such as visual culture, sociology, physics, neurobiology, linguistics or critical theory, for example, contributors have experimented with pattern and/or chaos-related forms, processes, materials, sounds and language or have reflected on the work of other artists, scientists and scholars. Diagrams, tessellations, dust, knots, mazes, folds, creases, flux, virus, fire and flow are indicative of processes through which pattern and chaos are addressed. The contributions are organized into clusters of subjects which reflect the interdisciplinary terrain through a robust, yet also experimental, arrangement. These are 'Pattern Dynamics', 'Morph Flux Mutate', 'Decompose Recompose', 'Virus; Social Imaginary' and 'Nothings in Particular'.

Author : Gabriel N. Gee,Alison Vogelaar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134968404

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Changing Representations of Nature and the City by Gabriel N. Gee,Alison Vogelaar Pdf

The turn of the 1960s-70s, characterized by the rapid acceleration of globalization, prompted a radical transformation in the perception of urban and natural environments. The urban revolution and related prospect of the total urbanisation of the planet, in concert with rapid population growth and resource exploitation, instigated a surge in environmental awareness and activism. One implication of this moment is a growing recognition of the integration and interconnection of natural and urban entities. The present collection is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the changing modes of representation of nature in the city beginning from the turn of the 1960s/70s. Bringing together a number of different disciplinary approaches, including architectural studies and aesthetics, heritage studies and economics, environmental science and communication, the collection reflects upon the changing perception of socio-natures in the context of increasing urban expansion and global interconnectedness as they are/were manifest in specific representations. Using cases studies from around the globe, the collection offers a historical and theoretical understanding of a paradigmatic shift whose material and symbolic legacies are still accompanying us in the early 21st century.

Author : George Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317287162

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The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy by George Smith Pdf

In The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy, Smith argues that Western Metaphysics has indeed come to what Heidegger describes as “an end.” That is hardly to say philosophy as such is over or soon to disappear; rather, its purpose as a medium of cultural change and as a generator of history has run its course. He thus calls for a New Philosophy, conceptualized by the artist-philosopher who “makes” or “poeticizes” New Philosophy, spanning literary and theoretical discourses and operating across art in all its forms and across culture in all its locations. To this end, Smith proposes the establishment of schools and social networks that advance the training and development of artist-philosophers, as well as global digital networks that are themselves designed toward this “ever-becoming community.”

Author : Marco Bohr,Basia Sliwinska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315442907

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The Evolution of the Image by Marco Bohr,Basia Sliwinska Pdf

This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that are attached to them and the implications they have for notions of identity, memory, gender, cultural belonging and political action. Contributors focus on the political efficacy of the image in digital communities, as well as the representation of the digital self in order to offer a fresh perspective on the role of digital images in the creation and promotion of new forms of resistance, agency and identity within visual cultures.

Author : Gry Hedin,Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315311876

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Artistic Visions of the Anthropocene North by Gry Hedin,Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud Pdf

In the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters, which focus on art from 1780 to the present that engages with Nordic landscapes, argue that a number of artists in this period work in the intersection between art, science, and media technologies to examine the human impact on these landscapes and question the blurred boundaries between nature and the human. Canadian artists such as Lawren Harris and Geronimo Inutiq are considered alongside artists from Scandinavia and Iceland such as J.C. Dahl, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Toril Johannessen, and Björk.