Research Catalog

Title

Mutable : ceramic and clay art in India since 1947 / Sindhura D.M. ; introduction by Annapurna Garimella ; with an essay by Kristine Michael.

Author

M., Sindhura D.

Publication

Ahmedabad, India : Mapin Publishing, in association with Piramal Museum of Art, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Garimella, Annapurna
• Michael, Kristine
• Piramal Art Gallery (Mumbai, India), host institution, publisher.

Description

204 pages : color illustrations; 28 x 28 cm

Summary

Situated within the larger context of the post-Independence craft revival, this volume pays keen attention to the transnational histories of practice through five sections. The section Shift explores the local and international lineages of Indian studio pottery. Object discusses the ways in which clay has been a unique medium of expression for many artists. Utility considers the development of Indian ceramic industries, through lenses of economics and class. Form takes as its subject hereditary potters who negotiate modern-day artistic spaces. Perception focuses on the low-fired water container and its web of connections with its makers and users. The very mutability of clay and its shaper and the resulting dynamism, that produces both tensions and opportunities, are at the centre of this book.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Pottery, Indic > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Pottery, Indic > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Clay figurines > India > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Clay figurines > India > History > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Figurines d'argile > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle > Expositions
• Figurines d'argile > Inde > Histoire > 21e siècle > Expositions
• Clay figurines
• Pottery, Indic
• India

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• History
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Exhibitions (note)

• " ... based on the exhibition, 'Mutable: ceramics and clay--art in India since 1947' curated by Sindhura D.M. and Annapurna Garimella ... ' held in Mumbai from October 13, 2017 to January 15, 2018"--Title page verso

Contents

Introduction / Annapurna Garimella -- Mutable: Indian ceramics in a state of flux / Kristine Michael -- Shift -- The Beginnings of Studio Pottery in India -- Santiniketan and Baroda -- Students of Ray Meeker and Auroville Ceramicists -- Form -- The Practice of Making and Selling Pots -- Shapers of the Craft in Modern India -- Objects of Transition -- Objects for Display -- Objects for Utility -- Utility -- Mass-and Bulk-Produced Domestic Ceramics -- Batch and Custom Manufacturing -- Mass-Produced Construction Ceramics -- Bulk Manufacturers of Non-Construction Ceramics -- Batch-Production Homeware Ceramics -- Object -- A Medium for Making Modern and Contemporary Art -- A Medium for Revivalism -- An Urban Medium -- Perception -- Living Objects -- Vessels for Storing and Carrying Water -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements.

ISBN

• 9789385360565
• 9385360566

OCLC

• on1241684504
• SCSB-14606736

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library