Contemporary clay and museum culture. Christie Brown; Julian Stair; Clare Twomey.
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TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Taylor & Francis Ltd 2016.Description: 288 pISBN: - 9781472470379
- 1472470370
- 738.0952 BRO
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This groundbreaking book is the first to provide a critical overview of the relationship between contemporary ceramics and curatorial practice in museum culture. Ceramic objects form a major part of museum collections, with connections to anthropology, archaeology and other disciplines that engage with the cultural and social history of humankind. In recent years museums have provided the impetus for cutting-edge artistic practice, either as a response to particular collections, or as part of exhibitions. But the question of how museums have staged contemporary ceramics and how ceramic artists respond to museum collections has not been the subject of published research to date. This book examines how ceramic artists have, over the last decade, begun to animate museum collections in new ways, and reflects on the impact that these new initiatives have had in the broad context of visual culture. Ceramics in the Expanded Field is the culmination of a three-year AHRC funded project, and reflects its major findings. It brings together leading international voices in the field of ceramics, research undertaken throughout the project and papers delivered at the concluding conference. By examining the benefits and constraints of interventions and the dialogue between ceramics and museological practice, this book will bring focus to an area of museology that has not yet been theorized, and will contribute to policy debates and art practice.
This groundbreaking book is the first to provide a critical overview of the relationship between contemporary ceramics and curatorial practice in museum culture. Ceramic objects form a major part of museum collections, with connections to anthropology, archaeology and other disciplines that engage with the cultural and social history of humankind. In recent years museums have provided the impetus for cutting-edge artistic practice, either as a response to particular collections, or as part of exhibitions. But the question of how museums have staged contemporary ceramics and how ceramic artists respond to museum collections has not been the subject of published research to date. This book examines how ceramic artists have, over the last decade, begun to animate museum collections in new ways, and reflects on the impact that these new initiatives have had in the broad context of visual culture. Ceramics in the Expanded Field is the culmination of a three-year AHRC funded project, and reflects its major findings. It brings together leading international voices in the field of ceramics, research undertaken throughout the project and papers delivered at the concluding conference. By examining the benefits and constraints of interventions and the dialogue between ceramics and museological practice, this book will bring focus to an area of museology that has not yet been theorized, and will contribute to policy debates and art practice.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. ix)
- Notes on contributors (p. xii)
- Preface and acknowledgements (p. xvii)
- Introduction: Ceramics in a place of cultural discourse (p. 1)
- Part I The expanded field (p. 5)
- 1 Productive friction: Ceramic practice and the museum since 1970 (p. 7)
- 2 The walls come tumbling down (p. 17)
- 3 Damaging the historic fabric: Keith Harrison at the Victoria and Albert Museum (p. 31)
- 4 Out of the studio (p. 45)
- Part II The museum as context (p. 55)
- 5 Ceramics on show: Domesticity, destruction and manifestations of risk-taking (p. 57)
- 6 Ceramics process in the museum: Revolution or recidivism? (p. 66)
- 7 The anatomy of a home: Saarinen House (p. 73)
- 8 Jung's amphora: Ceramics, collections and the collective unconscious (p. 86)
- Part III Audience engagement (p. 95)
- 9 Ceramic art in social contexts (p. 97)
- 10 A show of hands: The spectacle of apprenticeship (p. 105)
- 11 Cotton fields and baseball fields (p. 115)
- 12 Crinson jug from clay to the grave (and beyond): Exploring the ceramic object as a gathering point (p. 121)
- Part IV Process and material (p. 133)
- 13 The art of appropriation (p. 135)
- 14 Collected activity: Making in the museum (p. 146)
- 15 We claim the bowl in the name of craft (p. 154)
- 16 Love notes to Buddhas: Are you land or water? (p. 165)
- Part V Curation and authorship (p. 175)
- 17 Possibilities regained: Transitions through clay (p. 177)
- 18 Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon (p. 186)
- 19 Queering the museum (p. 196)
- 20 Ego and salve in the Gardiner Museum (p. 209)
- Index (p. 223)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Christie Brown is an artist, researcher and Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster, UK.Julian Stair is a potter and writer.
Clare Twomey is an artist and curator and Researcher at the Ceramics Research Centre, University of Westminster, UK.