Research Catalog

Title

Ceramic art / Margaret S. Graves, Sequoia Miller, Magdalene Odundo, Vicki Parry ; edited by Caroline Fowler and Ittai Weinryb.

Publication

• Princeton ; Oxford [UK] : Princeton University Press, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Graves, Margaret S.
• Miller, Sequoia
• Odundo, Magdalene
• Parry, Vicki
• Fowler, Caroline O.
• Weinryb, Ittai

Description

viii, 157 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm.

Summary

"Surviving ceramic vessels buried in tombs, caves, and the earth around the world testify to the earliest human creative activity. By studying ceramics historians uncover the complex ways that societies organized and sustained themselves, as well as how they interacted with other cultures. Today the ceramic arts remain a vibrant artistic medium, as contemporary artists engage with this material history to sustain their own heritage practices, while also shaping new histories from clay. From pre-Columbian Andean tombs to contemporary African sculpture, Ceramic Art considers ceramics as an artistic medium that uniquely records and expresses our individual and collective worlds across cultures. With an introduction and conclusion written by Sequoia Miller, the chief curator at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto and a practicing ceramic artist, this volume features three main essays. The first, by art historian Margaret Graves, provides an overview of different ceramic histories and the ways regional and global circulation have impacted them; the second, by conservator Victoria Parry, focuses on the challenges of preserving these artworks and artifacts; and the third, by studio potter Magdalene Odundo, examines the art form from the point of view of the contemporary practitioner. These essays are followed by three case studies, organized chronologically from ancient to contemporary, and spanning centuries and continents in range, that put objects in conversation with one another in innovative, cross-disciplinary ways. Ceramic Art is the inaugural title in our new series ART/WORK. Responding to the latest trends in the field, the ART/WORK series provides innovative narratives that change how art history as a discipline is imagined"--

Series Statement

Art/Work

Uniform Title

• Ceramic art (Princeton University Press)
• Art/Work (Series)

Subject

• Pottery > Conservation and restoration
• Pottery > History
• Pottery

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Ceramic art is the first volume in the Art/Work series, which aims to make histories of conservation accessible beyond specialist journals and publications. Many of the authors in this volume make explicit their background, and the tools and methods that they use to make, conserve, research, and study ceramics."--Foreword, page vii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-150) and index.

Contents

Ceramic art: an introduction / Sequoia Miller -- Ceramics: the art of being human / Margaret S. Graves -- Crazing, shivering, golden cracks and rivets: preserving the value of flaws / Vicki Parry -- Pots with structure and purpose: a chance encounter, a potter by chance / Magdalene Odundo -- Case studies in ceramic art. Animating the world: the ceramics of ancient Peru / Ulla Holmquist ; Cycladic bird jug / Carl Knappett ; A porcelain set of four continents fit for the king / Yao-Fen You ; Remaking porcelain: a conservator's perspective / Soon Kai Poh.

Call Number

JQE 24-135

ISBN

• 9780691226637
• 0691226636
• 9780691247434 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022029524

OCLC

1334653754

Title

Ceramic art / Margaret S. Graves, Sequoia Miller, Magdalene Odundo, Vicki Parry ; edited by Caroline Fowler and Ittai Weinryb.

Publisher

Princeton ; Oxford [UK] : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Art/Work

Art/Work (Series)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-150) and index.

Added Author

Graves, Margaret S., contributor.

Miller, Sequoia, contributor.

Odundo, Magdalene, contributor.

Parry, Vicki, contributor.

Fowler, Caroline O., editor.

Weinryb, Ittai, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Ceramic art (Princeton University Press) Ceramic art Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023 9780691247434 (DLC) 2022029525

Research Call Number

JQE 24-135