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

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.

About the author

Laura Gray has a PhD in Art History from Cardiff Metropolitan University and is a freelance curator, writer and researcher specializing in contemporary art and craft, and twentieth-century sculpture.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Gray, Gray, Laura (Independent Researcher) Gray
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history
• EAN: 9781138054295
• ISBN: 978-1-138-05429-5
• Pages: 134
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Ai Weiwei, White Cube, Europe, European History, ART / Ceramics, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, Ceramic arts, pottery, glass, ART / Museum Studies, ART / European, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Techniques / Sculpting, sculpture, MIT Press, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Art & design styles: from c 1960, material culture studies, General and world history, Museology and heritage studies, Painting, drawing and art manuals, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks, Non-graphic and electronic art forms, De Waal, studio pottery, critical art discourse, contemporary art practice, Tate Publishing, High Cross House, De Waal’s Work, Middlesbrough Institute, Julian Stair, art and craft theory, clay sculpture in gallery context, iconoclasm in art, installation techniques, Henry Moore Institute, Crafts Council, Minimalist Sculpture, Ceramic Arts, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Han Dynasty Urn, Salvage Series, James Beighton, Ceramics Practice, Nova Scotia College, Plug Sockets