Research Catalog

Title

Danish studio ceramics 1950-2010 in Designmuseum Danmark / Bodil Busk Laursen ; English translation, Joan F. Davidson.

Author

Laursen, Bodil Busk

Publication

• [Copenhagen] : Designmuseum Danmark, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Designmuseum Danmark, owner, issuing body.

Description

360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

Ceramics are highly embedded in Danish culture. Since the Stone Age, clay has been cultivated by humans and used to manufacture everything from building materials and utility to sculpture and decoration. After the Second World War, throughout Denmark there were a number of one-man workshops of ceramics with professional education. They quickly got a production started, well helped by improved technical equipment and stimulating demand for good functional utilization. Along with the working culture, the studio ceramicists created unique work, which gradually took over in step with the increasing competition and the artistic and physical flows of time. The years from 1980 to the present constitute a rich period in Danish ceramics, where ceramics and artists with different assumptions and performances created experimental works. 'Danish Workshop Ceramics 1950-2010 in Designmuseum Denmark', with 632 works of 133 ceramicists and artists such as Asger Jorn, Ursula Munch-Petersen, Nina Sten-Knudsen, Peter Brandes, Jørgen Herman Kähler, Bjørn Nørgaard and Bjørn Wiinblad, give a unique insight into the range and the high quality of Danish ceramics, which is represented in the collection at Designmuseum Denmark. The book contains a review and description of the museum's collection of unique ceramic works from a period of 60 years, from the postwar period to the present day. Bodil Busk Laursen draws a picture of diversity and high level in Danish ceramics.

Series Statement

Catalogue of the collection in Designmuseum Danmark

Uniform Title

• Dansk værkstedskeramik 1950-2010 i Designmuseum Danmark. English
• Bestandskatalog fra samling på Designmuseum Danmark. English.

Alternative Title

Dansk værkstedskeramik 1950-2010 i Designmuseum Danmark.

Subjects

• Ceramic sculpture, Danish > 20th century > Catalogs
• Pottery, Danish > 20th century > Catalogs
• Designmuseum Danmark Catalogs
• Pottery, Danish > 21st century > Catalogs
• Ceramic sculpture, Danish > 21st century > Catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQE 18-459

ISBN

• 9788763546331
• 8763546337
• 9788790786625
• 8790786629

OCLC

1010719977

Author

Laursen, Bodil Busk, author.

Title

Danish studio ceramics 1950-2010 in Designmuseum Danmark / Bodil Busk Laursen ; English translation, Joan F. Davidson.

Publisher

[Copenhagen] : Designmuseum Danmark, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Catalogue of the collection in Designmuseum Danmark

Bestandskatalog fra samling på Designmuseum Danmark. English.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Designmuseum Danmark, owner, issuing body.

Translation Of:

Dansk Værkstedskeramik 1950-2010 i Designmuseum Danmark. Kobenhavn : Designmuseum Denmark 2017 9788763546324 (OCoLC)1010712818

Research Call Number

JQE 18-459