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Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of SculptureContemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture: Monuments, Multiples, Destruction and Display

By Laura Gray

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351626408, 9781138054295, 9781315114132
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2857431 bytes)
Series
Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Pages
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Library
Memory of the World Library
Time added
2021-08-13 12:32:27
21st CenturyArtCeramicsContemporary (1945-)EuropeEuropeangeneralGreat BritainHistoryModernmuseum studiesSculptingSculpture & InstallationTechniques

Description

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.

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