"Contemporary British Studio Ceramics" by Annie Carlano

Contemporary British Studio Ceramics Annie Carlano

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 30 Oct 2010
ISBN:: 9780300167191
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 224 pages: 292 x 229mm
Illustrations:: 160 color illus.
Sales territories:: World

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In Britain today the output of excellent ceramics seems more eclectic than elsewhere. This stylish and wide-ranging survey comprises examples of clay art by one hundred major artists, covering the period from the late 1980s through 2009. Drawn from the Diane and Marc Grainer Collection, it includes works by Allison Britton, Edmund de Waal, Kate Malone, Grayson Perry, Julian Stair, Steve Dixon, and Nick Arroyave-Portela, among others. The selection balances functional objects and sculpture; hand-built, thrown, and molded techniques; varieties of scale and color; and cerebral and emotional content.

All the ceramics here are rooted in the materiality of clay. The properties of the raw material, from its soft, malleable texture to the alchemy of slips and glazes, are at the core of the artists’ passion. And, as the text reveals, the younger generation is moving into new directions of art practice.

Annie Carlano, director of Craft + Design at the Mint Museum of Art, is former senior curator at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, and department head and curator of textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.