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Utopic impulses : contemporary ceramics practice / edited by Ruth Chambers, Amy Gogarty & Mireille Perron.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Vancouver : Ronsdale Press, [2007]Description: xiv, 302 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. ports. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781553800521 (pbk.)
  • 1553800524 (pbk.)
  • 1553800516 (pbk.)
  • 9781553800514 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 738 CHA
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
3 Day Loan LSAD Library Short Loan 738 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000164005

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The series of Craft Perception and Practice volumes gives recognition to the exciting new developments in contemporary craft practice and scholarship. This second volume brings together 22 essays and critical commentaries by 19 independent critics and curators, professional artists, art historians, and studio art instructors. Illustrated with 40 colour photographs of works by some of Canada's finest craft artists, the texts represent the depth and range of critical thought about Canadian craft presented at symposiums and in exhibition catalogues and arts journals.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Craft and the Semiotics of Pattern: A Feminist Perspective
  • Lisa Samphire: Bending the Bullseye
  • Ancient Affections: Paul Mathieu's Making China in China
  • Flowers and Leaves: Constructing Nature
  • Getting Things Done: On Needlecraft & Free Time
  • The Art of Camouflage, A Female Touch: Exploring tactility in the work of Janice Wright Cheney, Barb Hunt and Sarah Maloney
  • Stardale: A Success Story
  • Thinking Textile
  • How to Knit an Academic Paper
  • Rules of Grammar or Childish Babble?: Interpreting Ornament and Meaning in the Context of Modernity
  • Immaterial beauty
  • But is it (ceramic) Art? Ceramics and the "Problem" with Jean-Pierre Larocque's Exhibition at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
  • Louise Perrone's Museum
  • Sara Washbush: The Parting Glass
  • Vancouver Sculpture: Craft Concepts
  • John Macnab: Between Centres
  • Sarah Link's Drift
  • Christina Mayr: Focus on the Vessel
  • How Long is a Piece of String?

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Paula Gustafson, who passed away in July 2006, was both a contributor to and the editor of Craft Perception and Practice Volumes I, II and III. She was the well-known editor of Canada's award-winning magazine Artichoke: Writings about the Visual Arts and a regular contributor to other visual art magazines in Canada, Australia, England and Hong Kong.

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