Description
| Product ID: | 9781032476421 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
| Title: | Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture |
| Subtitle: | Monuments, Multiples, Destruction and Display |
| Authors: | Author: Laura Gray |
| Page Count: | 146 |
| Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, History of art, History of art, Sculpture, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks, Museology and heritage studies, European history, History, Life sciences: general issues, Ceramic and glass technology, Materials science, Art styles not defined by date, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Sculpture, Ceramic arts, pottery, glass, Museology & heritage studies, British & Irish history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Life sciences: general issues, Ceramics & glass technology, Materials science, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| 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 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-01-21 |