This lushly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive examination of postwar ceramic sculpture alongside other fine art of the period. The catalogue features more than 80 objects by leading 20th-century ceramicists, including John Mason, Ken Price, Lucie Rie, and Peter Voulkos. Essays consider the art in connection with renowned paintings, sculptures in other media, and works on paper, by artists such as Willem de Kooning, Isamu Noguchi, Mark Rothko, and Ed Ruscha. Juxtaposing ceramics with non-ceramic works, both visually and conceptually, and examining the visual, historical, and theoretical affinities among the objects, the authors demonstrate that the finest ceramics share the formal sophistication of the most celebrated artworks of the postwar period. As ceramics increasingly are recognized as integral to the wider field of contemporary art, this book offers new opportunities for understanding this important medium.
Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery
Exhibition Schedule:Yale University Art Gallery
(09/04/15–01/03/16)
- ISBN10 0300214405
- ISBN13 9780300214406
- Publish Date 11 February 2016
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 March 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300214406