Contemporary clay and museum culture : ceramics in the expanded field / edited by Christie Brown, Julian Stair, Clare Twomey.
Published / Created:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Physical Description:
xviii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Martina Droth.
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: ceramics in a place of cultural discourse / Clare Twomey -- The expanded field. Productive friction: ceramic practice and the museum since 1970 / Laura Breen -- The walls come tumbling down / Martina Margetts -- Damaging the historic fabric: Keith Harrison at the Victoria and Albert Museum / Alun Graves -- Out of the studio / Tanya Harrod -- The museum as context. Ceramics on show: domesticity, destruction and manifestations of risk-taking / Laura Gray -- Ceramics process in the museum: revolution of recidivism / Glen R. Brown -- The anatomy of a home: Saarinen House / Anders Ruhwald -- Jung's amphora: ceramics, collections and the collective unconscious / Mella Shaw -- Audience engagement. Ceramic art in social contexts / Tessa Peters -- A show of hands: the spectacle of apprenticeship / Kimberley Chandler and Stephen Knott -- Cotton fields and baseball fields / Theaster Gates -- Crinson jug from clay to the grave (and beyond): exploring the ceramic object as a gathering point / Christopher McHugh -- Process and material. The art of appropriation / Jorunn Veiteberg, translated from Norwegian by Douglas Ferguson -- Collected activity: making in the museum / Phoebe Cummings -- We claim the bowl in the name of craft / Namita Gupta Wiggers -- Love notes to Buddhas: are you land or water? / Linda Sormin -- Curation and authorship. Possibilities regained: transitions through clay / James Beighton -- Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon / Juliet Carey -- Queering the museum / Matt Smith -- Ego and salve in the Gardiner Museum / Rachel Gotlieb.
Subject Terms:
Artists and museums -- History -- 21st century. | Pottery -- Social aspects. | Museums -- Social aspects. | Museums -- Curatorship -- Philosophy. | Art and society -- History -- 21st century.
Contributors:
Brown, Christie, 1946– editor. | Stair, Julian, editor. | Twomey, Clare, editor. | Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain)