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Informationen zum Autor Kevin Petrie is a well known writer and ceramic artist and is Head of the School of Art and Design and Professor of Glass and Ceramics at the University of Sunderland which has one of the best glass courses in the UK. He is best known for ‘blending’ printmaking and glass/ceramics for creative use. Andrew Livingstone is Reader in Ceramics at the University of Sunderland, UK. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction - Livingstone and Petrie Pen and Kiln: a brief overview of modern ceramics and critical writing - Garth Clark Section One: Ceramics: Materiality and Metaphor Section Introduction - Livingstone and Petrie 1.1 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 metaphor Introductory 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 Petrie 2.1 Historical Precedents Introductory 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 Ceramics Introductory 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 Ceramics Introductory 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 Putnam 2.4. 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 Perspectives 31.Reconsidering ...
