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The ceramic presence in modern art : selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery / Sequoia Miller ; with an essay by John Stuart Gordon

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Art Gallery, 2015Distributor: New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: xv, 176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300214406
  • 0300214405
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 738/.09/04 23
LOC classification:
  • NK3930 .M555x 2015
Contents:
Director's forward / Jock Reynolds -- Collector's forward / Linda Leonard Schlenger -- Introduction -- An informed passion: Linda Leonard Schlenger, collector and advocate -- Theoretical connections: postwar ceramics and the historical avant-garde -- Historical connections: Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and London -- Formal connections: ceramics, painting, sculpture, and works on paper -- The patron saint: George E. Ohr and the contemporary art world / John Stuart Gordon
Summary: "This lushly illustrated volume is the first to thoroughly examine postwar ceramic sculpture alongside other fine art of the period. The catalogue features over 80 objects by leading 20th-century ceramicists, including John Mason, Jim Melchert, Ken Price, Lucie Rie, and Peter Voulkos. Essays consider the art in connection with renowned paintings, sculptures in other media, and works on paper by artists such as Willem de Kooning, Isamu Noguchi, Mark Rothko, and Ed Ruscha. Juxtaposing ceramics with non-ceramic works, both visually and conceptually, and examining the visual, historical, and theoretical affinities among the objects, the authors demonstrate that the finest ceramics share the formal sophistication of the most celebrated artworks of the postwar period. As ceramics are increasingly recognized as integral to the wider field of contemporary art, this book offers new opportunities for understanding this important medium." -- Publisher's website
Holdings
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks NK3930 .M555X 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001386712

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Yale University Art Gallery, September 4, 2015-January 3, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index

"This lushly illustrated volume is the first to thoroughly examine postwar ceramic sculpture alongside other fine art of the period. The catalogue features over 80 objects by leading 20th-century ceramicists, including John Mason, Jim Melchert, Ken Price, Lucie Rie, and Peter Voulkos. Essays consider the art in connection with renowned paintings, sculptures in other media, and works on paper by artists such as Willem de Kooning, Isamu Noguchi, Mark Rothko, and Ed Ruscha. Juxtaposing ceramics with non-ceramic works, both visually and conceptually, and examining the visual, historical, and theoretical affinities among the objects, the authors demonstrate that the finest ceramics share the formal sophistication of the most celebrated artworks of the postwar period. As ceramics are increasingly recognized as integral to the wider field of contemporary art, this book offers new opportunities for understanding this important medium." -- Publisher's website

Director's forward / Jock Reynolds -- Collector's forward / Linda Leonard Schlenger -- Introduction -- An informed passion: Linda Leonard Schlenger, collector and advocate -- Theoretical connections: postwar ceramics and the historical avant-garde -- Historical connections: Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and London -- Formal connections: ceramics, painting, sculpture, and works on paper -- The patron saint: George E. Ohr and the contemporary art world / John Stuart Gordon

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