Women and Ceramics (Studies in Design and Material Culture) - Softcover

Vincentelli, Moira

9780719038402: Women and Ceramics (Studies in Design and Material Culture)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719038405 ISBN 13: 9780719038402

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2000

From humble cooking pot to post-modern vessel, women have had a special relationship with fired clay. Since the earliest times women have made pottery and clay sculptures, they have cooked, carried water, stored and served food in pottery and have used ceramics in domestic rituals and decorative display. In her wide-ranging discussion of this subject, Moira Vincentelli examines some of the great female ceramic traditions such as Pueblo pottery and considers the notable success women have had over the 20th century from Suzie Cooper and Eva Zeisel in design to individual ceramic artists such as Lucie Rie and Magdalene Odundo. She also shows how women have left their mark in the field of ceramics as writers, teachers, business women, gallery owners and collectors, from Madame de Pompadour to the collectors of blue and white china and lustre jugs of Welsh dresser display.

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Review:

The theoretical strategies deployed by MoiraVincentelli in Women and Ceramics are practical and illuminating. "Woman's Art Journal"

About the Author:

Moira Vincentelli is Lecturer in Art History and Curator of Ceramics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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