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POSTMODERN CERAMICS
Mark Del Vecchio Introduction by Garth Clark "Postmodernism and ceramics is a marriage made in artworld heaven." — Garth Clark
Complete with illustrated biographies of each of the artists and a detailed bibliography, the book not only brims with colorful ceramics but also provides the depth of information necessary for it to become a standard reference work for professionals and amateurs, makers and collectors. Mark Del Vecchio has been a leading figure promoting scholarship in ceramics for twenty years. He was co-chair of the organizing committee for the 1999 Ceramic Millennium Leadership Congress in Amsterdam and is a founding director and partner in the Garth Clark Gallery, New York. In 1999 he received the Visionaries Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Craft Museum. ISBN 0-500-23787-5 · 8 5/8" x 10" · 300 illustrations, 249 in color · 224 pages · CERAMICS / ART
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Since 1980, ceramic art has come alive as never before. Brightly patterned,
humorous, and sometimes irreverent, ceramics appeal to a wider audience
than at any other time. Mark Del Vecchio provides a stunning international
overview of the richness and diversity of ceramic art during the past
twenty years. He surveys the achievements of over 130 masters of contemporary
ceramics from more than twenty-five countries, among them Ralph Baccera,
Adrian Saxe, Betty Woodman, Akio Takamori, and Andrew Lord, analyzing
their varied approaches by presenting the work in twelve themes: the postmodern
look; post-minimalism; pattern and decoration; the multiple vessel; organic
abstraction; the real/super-real; history, culture, and time; the image
and the vessel; the vessel as image; figural sculpture; abstract sculpture;
and post-industrialism. In his introduction, the noted ceramic historian
Garth Clark shows how this great burst of creative energy and innovation
provided an escape route from the antagonistic and demoralizing relationship
that had existed between ceramics and modernism.