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Ceramics and the museum

Breen, Laura, author

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Ceramics and the Museum interrogates the relationship between artoriented ceramic practice and museum practice in Britain since 1970. Laura Breen examines the identity of ceramics as an art form, drawing on examples of work by artist-makers such as Edmund de Waal and Grayson Perry; addresses the impact of policy making on ceramic practice; traces the shift from object to project in ceramic practice, and the evolution of ceramic sculpture; explores how museums facilitated multisensory engagement with ceramic material and process, and analyses the exhibition as a text in itself. Proposing the notion that \"gestures of showing,\" such as exhibitions and installation art, can be read as statements, she examines what they tell us about the identity of ceramics at particular moments in time. Highlighting the ways in which these gestures have constructed ceramics as a category of artistic practice, Breen argues that they reveal gaps between narrative and practice, which can be used to deconstruct it too.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Subject: Artists and museums. / Pottery Social aspects. / Museums Social aspects. / Art and society History. / Art pottery Great Britain 20th century. / Art pottery Great Britain 21st century. / Art pottery 20th century Collectors and collecting Great Britain. / Art pottery 21st century Collectors and collecting Great Britain. / Art museums Collection management Great Britain. / Ceramics Great Britain Exhibitions. / Art museums Curatorship Great Britain Philosophy.
• ISBN: 1350047821, 9781350047822, 9781350047846, 1350047848

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N72.A77 B744 2019	1	BOOK	ARTS