Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary clay and museum culture : ceramics in the expanded field / edited by Christie Brown, Julian Stair, Clare Twomey.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Christie, 1946-
• Stair, Julian
• Twomey, Clare
• Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain)

Subject

• Artists and museums > History > 21st century
• Pottery > Social aspects
• Museums > Social aspects
• Museums > Curatorship > Philosophy
• Art and society > History > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

ISBN

• 9781472470379
• 1472470370

LCCN

• 2015041501
• 40026330786

OCLC

• ocn927619481
• 927619481
• SCSB-5864149

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries