20th century ceramics / Edmund de Waal.
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TextSeries: World of artPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2003. Description: 224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21cmISBN: - 0500203717
- 738 DEW
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
At the turn of the twentieth century, ceramics--as in other media in both the decorative and fine arts--underwent revolutionary change. The potter emerged from the anonymity of the workshop and made more individualistic statements in clay than ever before.
Ceramics have kept pace with, or even led, new movements in art, from art nouveau, art deco, the Bauhaus, and futurism, through abstract expressionism, pop and performance, to land art and installation art. Stylistic and technical influences are considered here in context, from orientalism and color theory to modernism, postmodernism, and the profuse diversity of approaches that characterizes the end of the century.
The scope is wide, taking in developments in Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, the United States, and Japan. The work of exceptional individuals is appraised, including Taxile Doat, Clarice Cliff, Susie Cooper, Bernard Leach, Isamu Noguchi, Hans Coper, Lucie Rie, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Peter Voulkos, and Adrian Saxe. The relation of ceramics to other disciplines is given close attention: sculptors, such as Antony Gormley and Tony Cragg, and even architects, including Frank Gehry, have made ceramics central to their practice.
This comprehensive survey provides invaluable background and commentary on leading practitioners, critics, theorists, and pioneers, illuminating the development of an art form that seized and inspired the imagination of artists and the public alike in the twentieth century.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 6)
- Chapter 1 1900-20
- The Theatre of Technique: Doat and Robineau (p. 20)
- Orientalist styles: Chaplet to Bindesboll (p. 25)
- Art Nouveau (p. 30)
- Gauguin and Expressionism (p. 37)
- Ceramics and painting (p. 40)
- Native styles: reinventing the vernacular (p. 46)
- Ceramics and interiors: Vienna and Prague (p. 51)
- Chapter 2 1920-45
- After the Russian Revolution: 'the parade of objects' (p. 58)
- Scandinavia (p. 65)
- The Bauhaus (p. 67)
- Italian Futurism (p. 76)
- Art Deco (p. 79)
- Women and ceramics; figures and figuration (p. 82)
- Romantic Nationalism: Bernard Leach and Japan (p. 88)
- Britain in the 1930s (p. 98)
- Germany and the USA in the 1930s (p. 103)
- Chapter 3 1945-65
- Japan: radical beginnings (p. 109)
- Isamu Noguchi (p. 115)
- Postwar Europe: Salto, Coper, Duckworth (p. 121)
- 'High unseriousness': painters and clay (p. 132)
- Pablo Picasso (p. 133)
- Joan Miro (p. 137)
- CoBrA (p. 140)
- Lucio Fontana (p. 142)
- Reactions to Picasso in the 1950s (p. 145)
- Studio pottery after 1945 (p. 148)
- Postwar America (p. 154)
- Peter Voulkos and Otis (p. 156)
- Chapter 4 1965-2000
- Pop and Funk ceramics (p. 164)
- Critical commentaries, new contexts (p. 173)
- 'A Field of Possibilities': Politics, Performance and Environment (p. 175)
- Installation (p. 183)
- Still life (p. 193)
- Postmodernism (p. 200)
- Nationalism (p. 205)
- Conclusion (p. 212)
- Select Bibliography (p. 216)
- List of Illustrations (p. 219)
- Index (p. 222)