Dear all,
I thought you may like to know about my book, Ceramics and the Museum, which I recently published with Bloomsbury:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ceramics-and-the-museum-9781350047846/
The book interrogates the relationship between art-oriented ceramic practice and museum practice in Britain since 1970. It is the culmination of my PhD research, which was part of Ceramics in the Expanded Field: Behind the Scenes at the Museum - a joint AHRC-funded project research project with Profs Christie Brown, Clare Twomey and Dr Julian Stair at the University of Westminster and Plymouth City Art Gallery, York Art Gallery and The Freud Museum.
The book 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 in 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, it asks what they tell us about the identity of ceramics at particular moments in time. Highlighting the ways in which these gestures have helped to construct ceramics as a category of artistic practice, it argues that they reveal gaps between narrative and practice, which can be used to deconstruct it too.
Kind regards,
Laura Breen
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