(Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies) 1st Edition
by Laura Gray (Author)
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. This development
has been accompanied (and perhaps propelled) by the kind of critical
discussion usually reserved for the 'higher' discipline of sculpture.
Ceramics is now encountering and colliding with sculpture, both formally
and intellectually. 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 clay.
