Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture: Monuments, Multiples, Destruction and Display Gray Laura
Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture: Monuments, Multiples, Destruction and Display Gray Laura This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have…
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Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture: Monuments, Multiples, Destruction and Display Gray Laura
This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery. Ceramics is now encountering and colliding with sculpture, both formally and intellectually. This development has been accompanied (and perhaps propelled) by the kind of critical discussion usually reserved for the 'higher' discipline of sculpture.
Laura Gray examines what this means for the old hierarchies between art and craft, the identity of the potter, and the character of a discipline tied to a specific material but wanting to participate in critical discussions that extend far beyond