Contemporary clay and museum culture : ceramics in the expanded field / edited by Christie Brown, Julian Stair, Clare Twomey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Christie, 1946- editor.

Stair, Julian, editor.

Twomey, Clare, editor.

Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists and museums--History--21st century.

Artists and museums.

Pottery--Social aspects.

Pottery.

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums.

Museums--Curatorship--Philosophy.

Art and society--History--21st century.

Art and society.

History.

Museums--Curatorship.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xviii, 228 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

"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." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Introduction: ceramics in a place of cultural discourse / Clare Twomey

The expanded field. Productive friction: ceramic practice and the museum since 1970 / Laura Breen

The walls come tumbling down / Martina Margetts

Damaging the historic fabric: Keith Harrison at the Victoria and Albert Museum / Alun Graves

Out of the studio / Tanya Harrod

The museum as context. Ceramics on show: domesticity, destruction and manifestations of risk-taking / Laura Gray

Ceramics process in the museum: revolution of recidivism / Glen R. Brown

The anatomy of a home: Saarinen House / Anders Ruhwald

Jung's amphora: ceramics, collections and the collective unconscious / Mella Shaw

Audience engagement. Ceramic art in social contexts / Tessa Peters

A show of hands: the spectacle of apprenticeship / Kimberley Chandler and Stephen Knott

Cotton fields and baseball fields / Theaster Gates

Crinson jug from clay to the grave (and beyond): exploring the ceramic object as a gathering point / Christopher McHugh

Process and material. The art of appropriation / Jorunn Veiteberg, translated from Norwegian by Douglas Ferguson

Collected activity: making in the museum / Phoebe Cummings

We claim the bowl in the name of craft / Namita Gupta Wiggers

Love notes to Buddhas: are you land or water? / Linda Sormin

Curation and authorship. Possibilities regained: transitions through clay / James Beighton

Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon / Juliet Carey

Queering the museum / Matt Smith

Ego and salve in the Gardiner Museum / Rachel Gotlieb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472470379

1472470370

OCLC:

927619481

Publisher Number:

40026330002