Full Description
The Ceramics Reader is an impressive editorial collection of essays and text extracts, covering every discipline within ceramics, past and present. Tackling such fundamental questions as "why are ceramics important?", the book also considers the field from a range of perspectives - as a cultural activity or metaphor, as a vehicle for propaganda, within industry and museums, and most recently as part of the 'expanded field' as a fine art medium and hub for ideas. Newly commissioned material features prominently alongside existing scholarship, to ensure an international and truly comprehensive look at ceramics.
Contents
General Introduction - Livingstone and PetriePen and Kiln: a brief overview of modern ceramics and critical writing - Garth Clark Section One: Ceramics: Materiality and MetaphorSection Introduction - Livingstone and Petrie1.1 Why are ceramics important? Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie1. Clay as elemental wholeness - Kenneth R. Beittel 2. The existential base - Philip Rawson3. Appreciating ceramics or so much more than just an egg cup or a milk jug - Ian Wilson 4. Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon) - Silvia Forni 5. Ceramics and art criticism - Janet Koplos 6. Death and Clay: Cultural and personal Interpretations in ceramics - Christopher Garcia and Tomaru Haruna 1.2 Ceramics and metaphorIntroductory summary Livingstone and Petrie7. Heart like a wheel: What is Hollywood telling us about working with clay? - Sarah Archer8. Analogy and metaphor in ceramic art - Philip Rawson 9. Metaphors, Myths and Making Pots - Laurel Birch Aguilar 10.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 Petrie2.1 Historical PrecedentsIntroductory summary Livingstone and Petrie11.The function of decoration: Wedgwood Herbert Read - 12.The Arts and Crafts Movement. GB, USA, Germany and Austria, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Hungary and Italy Emmanuel Cooper 13.A Matter of Tradition: A Debate Between Maguerite Wildenhain and Bernard Leach Brent Johnson 14.Contemporary design of the 1950's Rie and Coper in context Lesley Jackson 2.2 Studio CeramicsIntroductory summary Livingstone and Petrie15.Studio Pottery - Tanya Harrod 16.Towards a standard - Bernard Leach 17.Towards a Double Standard? - Edmund De Waal 18.Re-inventing the wheel - the origins of studio pottery - Julian Stair 19.The Archie Bray Foundation: A Legacy Reframed - Patricia Failing 20.Studio Ceramics: The end of the story? - Jeffrey Jones 2.3 Sculptural CeramicsIntroductory summary Livingstone and Petrie21.A Rough Equivalent: Sculpture and Pottery in the post war period - Jeffrey Jones 22.California (Funk) - Scott, A, Shields 23.Cooled Matter: Ceramic Sculpture in the expanded field - Mitchell Merback24.The New Ceramic Presence - Rose Slivka 25.Metamorphosis: the culture of ceramics - Martina Margetts 26.Antony Gormley in conversation with James Putnam - James Putnam2.4. Ceramics and Installation Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie27.Ceramics and Installation - Emma Shaw 28.Ceramic Installation Towards a self-definition - Ruth Chambers29.Multiplicity, Ambivalence and ceramic installation art - Glenn R Brown 2.5 Theoretical Perspectives31.Reconsidering 'The Pissoir Problem' - Bruce Metcalf32. The Modern Pot - Glenn Adamson33. Social Complexity and the historiography of ceramic - Paul Greenhalgh 34. Speak for yourself - Edmund De Waal 35. Object Theory - Paul Mathieu 36. Between a toilet and a hard place - Garth Clark 2.6 Conceptual and post studio practiceIntroductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie37. Manufacturing Validity; the ceramic work in the age of conceptual production - Lizzie Zucker Saltz38. On Dirt - Ingrid Schaffner39. Contemporary Clay - Clare Twomey 40. Elastic/Expanding; Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics - Jo Dahn 41. Extending Vocabularies: Distorting the ceramic familiar - clay and the performative 'other' - Andrew Livingstone 42. And into the Fire post studio ceramics in Britain - Glenn Adamson Section Three: Key Themes Section Introduction - Livingstone and Petrie3.1 Gender, Sexuality and CeramicsIntroductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie43. Gender, Identity and studio ceramics - Moira Vincentelli 44. Queering the Museum - Matt Smith 45. The Personal Political Pots of Grayson Perry - Louisa Buck & Marjan Boot 3.2 Identity and CeramicsIntroductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie46. Body language: ceramics to challenge the white world - Ruth Park 47. Rubber and Clay: South African material 'aftermodern' - Elisabeth Perrill 48. 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 3.3 Image Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie50. Ceramics and painting - an expanded field of enquiry - Veronika Horlik 51. Paul Scott's Confected landscapes and Contemporary Vignettes - Amy Gogarty 3.4 The bodyIntroductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie52. Embracing Sculptural Ceramics: a lived experience of touch in art - Bonnie Kemske 53. Vicious Figurines: Penny Byrne's Ceramic Advocacy - Inga Walton 54. The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary Ceramics - Peter Selz 3.5 Ceramics in educationIntroductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie55. The influence of educational institutions on contemporary ceramics - Andrea Gill 56. The Digital Future: Reimagining Ceramic Education in the 21st Century - Holly Hanessian 3.6 Ceramics, industry and new technologiesIntroductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie57.Transitions: A brief history of Modern Ceramics - Marek Cecula 58. National Identity and the problem of style in the post-war British ceramics Industry - Graham McLaren59. Continuity or Collapse: Ceramics in a post-industrial era - Jorunn Veiteberg 60. The UK marketing strategy in response to globalization c1990-2010 - Neil Ewins 61. Meta-making and me - Ingrid Murphy 3.7 Museum, site and displayIntroductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie62. Museums and the interstices of domestic life; Re-articulating domestic space in contemporary ceramics practice - Laura Gray 63. The museum as medium specific muse - Ezra Shales 64. Environment, art, ceramics, and site specificity - Brad Evan Taylor 65. When forms become attitude - A consideration of the adoption by an artist of ceramic display as narrative device and symbolic landscape - Mike Tooby 66. Why Clay? - James Beighton and Emily Hesse 67. Civic ceramics: shifting the centre of meaning - Natasha Mayo and Melania Warwick 68. Ceramics as an archaeology of the contemporary past - Christopher McHugh 69. Re-defining ceramics through exhibitionary practice - Laura Breen Index
