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Color and Fire
Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 Selections from the Smits Collection and Related Works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
by Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Jo Lauria ; Gretchen Adkins
ISBN: 0847822540
ISBN-13: 9780847822546
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2000
Size: 10.25 x 10.5 inches
Weight: 3.65 pounds
Pages: 251
Publisher's Notes
Drawn from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Color & Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 accompanies a major touring exhibition on the history of ceramic art in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 color photographs, Color & Fire explores the roles of key artists and the major stylistic movements they developed during the decades of pioneering innovation. Based on the premise that the history of studio ceramics can be regarded as a series of breakthroughs or milestones, Color & Fire highlights the moments when talented artists came together to produce work in clay that challenged traditions and promoted aesthetic freedom. In the early years of the twentieth century, pottery was primarily mass-produced in factories, where specialists in wheel throwing, glazing, and kiln firing worked under a system of divided labor. In the 1930s and 1940s, ceramists such as the renowned team of Gertrud and Otto Natzler began to perform all of these exacting functions-from mixing clay to firing kilns-in their own studios, creating one-of-a-kind pots, breathtaking in design and construction. Since that time, ceramic art has followed a metaphorical journey from the earth to the air, as concerns with utility, materials, and techniques have given way to abstract conceptual considerations. In Los Angeles in the 1950s, Peter Voulkos and his students upset the traditional values of craft pottery and the Bauhaus- inspired "form follows function" doctrine by creating nonfunctional, oversized, off-kilter vessels with cracks and holes, along with massive Abstract Expressionist monuments. In the 1960s in northern California, Robert Arneson and his students shattered taboos against clay as a sculptural medium in the oversized, off-kilter vessels with cracks and holes, along with massive Abstract Expressionist monuments. In the 1960s in northern California, Robert Arneson and his students shattered taboos against clay as a sculptural medium in the hands of potters with their radical, irreverent, and satirical "Funk" pieces. Today, no longer confined to the decorative arts or other craft categories, ceramic artists around the world explore an unlimited range of influences, styles, and ideas, engaging in a graceful and inventive dialogue with centuries of ceramic tradition. A celebration as well as a valuable art-historical survey, Color & Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 showcases the finest works form the unparalleled collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Accessible to the novice as well as to the enthusiast, the book includes essays by Grechen Adkins, Garth Clark, Jo Lauria, Rebecca Niederlander, Susan Peterson, and Peter Selz.
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Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 Selections from the Smits Collection and Related Works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art;Lauria, Jo;Adkins, Gretchen
New York, New York, U.S.A: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 2000. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. DJ has edge wear, scratches, minor creases, rubbed corners/spine, very slightly soiled. Cloth boards have edge wear, rubbed corners/spine. No writing. Very good. . ISBN: 0847822540 . ( more information)
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Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000
Lauria, Jo
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket. 4to. Book is in fine condition, jacket is in near fine condition; light scuffing to rear cover. Sticker on front endpage stating the book was a membership gift. Companion volume to exhibition of the same name in 2000-2001. Includes 318 illustrations, 259 in color. 252 pp. including bibliography. ( more information)
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Color and Fire
Lauria, Jo
LACMA/Rizzoli. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket 2000. 1st (stated). Hardbound. in DJ: DJ is slightly soiled; ISBN 0847822540; 4to . ( more information)
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Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000
Lauria, Jo, et al
Los Angeles and New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Rizzoli, 2000 Cloth, 251 pp., illus. (chiefly col.), biblio., index; 27 cm. "Selections from the Smits Collection and Related Works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Drawn from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Color & Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 accompanies a major touring exhibition on the history of ceramic art in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 color photographs, Color & Fire explores the roles of key artists and the major stylistic movements they developed during the decades of pioneering innovation. Based on the premise that the history of studio ceramics can be regarded as a series of breakthroughs or milestones, Color & Fire highlights the moments when talented artists came together to produce work in clay that challenged traditions and promoted aesthetic freedom. In the early years of the twentieth century, pottery was primarily mass-produced in factories, where specialists in wheel throwing, glazing, and kiln firing worked under a system of divided labor. In the 1930s and 1940s, ceramists such as the renowned team of Gertrud and Otto Natzler began to perform all of these exacting functions--from mixing clay to firing kilns--in their own studios, creating one-of-a-kind pots, breathtaking in design and construction. Since that time, ceramic art has followed a metaphorical journey from the earth to the air, as concerns with utility, materials, and techniques have given way to abstract conceptual considerations. In Los Angeles in the 1950s, Peter Voulkos and his students upset the traditional values of craft pottery and the Bauhaus- inspired 'form follows function' doctrine by creating nonfunctional, oversized, off-kilter vessels with cracks and holes, along with massive Abstract Expressionist monuments. In the 1960s in northern California, Robert Arneson and his students shattered taboos against clay as a sculptural medium in the oversized, off-kilter vessels with cracks and holes, along with massive Abstract Expressionist monuments. In the 1960s in northern California, Robert Arneson and his students shattered taboos against clay as a sculptural medium in the hands of potters with their radical, irreverent, and satirical 'Funk' pieces. Today, no longer confined to the decorative arts or other craft categories, ceramic artists around the world explore an unlimited range of influences, styles, and ideas, engaging in a graceful and inventive dialogue with centuries of ceramic tradition. A celebration as well as a valuable art-historical survey, Color & Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 showcases the finest works form the unparalleled collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Accessible to the novice as well as to the enthusiast, the book includes essays by Grechen Adkins, Garth Clark, Jo Lauria, Rebecca Niederlander, Susan Peterson, and Peter Selz. / Jo Lauria is assistant curatior of decorative arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She holds an M.F.A. from Otis College of Art and Design, an M.A. from Loyola Marymount University and a B.A. from Yale University." - Publisher. A survey of avant-garde ceramics. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 4-Sept. 17, 2000; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Dec. 15, 2000-March 4, 2001; The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, April 1-May 30, 2001; and one other venue through Oct. 7, 2001. Contents: Mapping the History of a Collection: Defining Moments in Ceramics at LACMA, by Jo Lauria; Ceramics in the West: The Explosion of the 1950s, by Susan Peterson; Otis and Berkeley: Crucibles of the American Clay Revolution, by Garth Clark; Figurative Impulse in Contemporary Ceramics, by Peter Selz; Better Living Through Tea: Contemporary Artists Investigate the Teapot and Teacup, by Rebecca Niederlander; Gwen Laurie Smits: Tribute to a Collector, by Gretchen Adkins.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue. ( more information)
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