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Author : Gerhard Marcks,Marguerite Wildenhain,Ruth R. Kath
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Artists
ISBN : UCSD:31822007676760
Author : Wendy Kaplan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262298094
The first comprehensive examination of California's mid-century modern design, generously illustrated. In 1951, designer Greta Magnusson Grossman observed that California design was “not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions.... It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way.” California design influenced the material culture of the entire country, in everything from architecture to fashion. This generously illustrated book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the first comprehensive examination of California's mid-century modern design. It begins by tracing the origins of a distinctively California modernism in the 1930s by such European émigrés as Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Kem Weber; it finds other specific design influences and innovations in solid-color commercial ceramics, inspirations from Mexico and Asia, new schools for design training, new concepts about leisure, and the conversion of wartime technologies to peacetime use (exemplified by Charles and Ray Eames's plywood and fiberglass furniture). The heart of California Design is the modern California home, famously characterized by open plans conducive to outdoor living. The layouts of modernist homes by Pierre Koenig, Craig Ellwood, and Raphael Soriano, for example, were intended to blur the distinction between indoors and out. Homes were furnished with products from Heath Ceramics, Van Keppel-Green, and Architectural Pottery as well as other, previously unheralded companies and designers. Many objects were designed to be multifunctional: pool and patio furniture that was equally suitable indoors, lighting that was both task and ambient, bookshelves that served as room dividers, and bathing suits that would turn into ensembles appropriate for indoor entertainment. California Design includes 350 images, most in color, of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, architecture, graphic and industrial design, film, textiles, and fashion, and ten incisive essays that trace the rise of the California design aesthetic.
Author : Elissa Auther,Adam Lerner
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780816677252
Recovering the art and lifestyle of the counterculture in the American West in the 1960s and '70s
Author : Jenni Sorkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226303116
Sorkin focuses on three Americans who promoted ceramics as an advanced artistic medium: Marguerite Wildenhain, a Bauhaus-trained potter and writer; Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards, who renounced formalism at Black Mountain College to pursue new performative methods; and Susan Peterson, best known for her live throwing demonstrations on public television. Together, these women pioneered a hands-on teaching style and led educational and therapeutic activities for war veterans, students, the elderly, and many others.
Author : Paul Greenhalgh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474239738
"Full of surprises [and] evocative." The Spectator "Passionately written." Apollo "An extraordinary accomplishment." Edmund de Waal "Monumental." Times Literary Supplement "An epic reshaping of ceramic art." Crafts "An important book." The Arts Society Magazine In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millennia. Indeed, the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society. This fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Romans and the medieval world; Islamic ceramic cultures and their influence on the Italian Renaissance; Chinese and European porcelain production; modernity and Art Nouveau; the rise of the studio potter, Art Deco, International Style and Mid-Century Modern, and finally, the contemporary explosion of ceramic making and the postmodern potter. Interwoven in this journey through time and place is the story of the pots themselves, the culture of the ceramics, and their character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually every country and historical period, and have worked as a commodity servicing every social class. They are omnipresent: a ubiquitous art. Ceramic culture is a clear, unique, definable thing, and has an internal logic that holds it together through millennia. Hence ceramics is the most peculiar and extraordinary of all the arts. At once cheap, expensive, elite, plebeian, high-tech, low-tech, exotic, eccentric, comic, tragic, spiritual, and secular, it has revealed itself to be as fluid as the mud it is made from. Ceramics are the very stuff of how civilized life was, and is, led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects.
Author : Helen Anne Molesworth,Ruth Erickson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300211917
La exposición refleja la historia del Black Mountain College (BMC), fundado en 1933 en Carolina del Norte y concebido como universidad experimental que situaba al arte en el centro de una educación liberal que pretendía educar mejor a los ciudadanos para participar en la sociedad democrática. La educación era interdisciplinaria y concedía gran importancia al debate, la investigación y la experimentación, dedicando la misma atención a las artes visuales –pintura, escultura, dibujo- que a las llamadas artes aplicadas –tejidos, cerámica, orfebrería, así como a la arquitectura, la poesía, la música y la danza.
Author : Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : California
ISBN : UCSC:32106012442734
Author : Janet Koplos,Bruce Metcalf
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-31
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780807895832
Here is the first comprehensive survey of modern craft in the United States. Makers follows the development of studio craft--objects in fiber, clay, glass, wood, and metal--from its roots in nineteenth-century reform movements to the rich diversity of expression at the end of the twentieth century. More than four hundred illustrations complement this chronological exploration of the American craft tradition. Keeping as their main focus the objects and the makers, Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf offer a detailed analysis of seminal works and discussions of education, institutional support, and the philosophical underpinnings of craft. In a vivid and accessible narrative, they highlight the value of physical skill, examine craft as a force for moral reform, and consider the role of craft as an aesthetic alternative. Exploring craft's relationship to fine arts and design, Koplos and Metcalf foster a critical understanding of the field and help explain craft's place in contemporary culture. Makers will be an indispensable volume for craftspeople, curators, collectors, critics, historians, students, and anyone who is interested in American craft.
Author : Cary Cordova
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812249309
The Heart of the Mission is the first in-depth examination of the Latino arts renaissance in San Francisco's Mission District in the latter twentieth century. Using evocative oral histories and archival research, Cordova highlights the rise of a vibrant intellectual community grounded in avant-garde aesthetics and radical politics.
Author : Mary Davis MacNaughton,Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015034209026
Chronicles the history of the last half century of ceramic art as seen through the works of some 70 artists from the Marer Collection. Essays discuss artistic and historical issues such as the unity of the designer and maker and new stylistic avenues from the 1960s to the present. Includes color plates and a checklist of the entire collection. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106020698293
Author : George Nakashima,Steven Beyer,James A. Michener Art Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056255832
A reevaluation of "the designer from a European perspective using the works of Finn Juhl, Carlo Mollino, Alexandre Noll, Charlotte Perriand, Gio Ponti, and Jean Prové."--P. 8.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106020140809
Author : Marguerite Wildenhain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015058894034
Life and reflections of a woman artist and craftsman who has lived and worked in northern California for more than thirty years.
Author : Susan Peterson,Jerry Rothman,Garth Clark,Mike McGee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822035153790
