That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920 - Today - Softcover

Sam Thorne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849764336 ISBN 13: 9781849764339

Publisher: Tate Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

That Continuous Thing a quote from the American artist Peter Voulkos traces the changing shape of the ceramics studio over the last century. Collecting eight key texts on ceramic practice over the last 100 years, this book is an essential introductory reader on an area of growing interest. The book includes texts from leading scholars such as Bernard Leach, Herbert Read, Edmund de Waal, Tanya Harrod, Glenn Adamson, and Alison Britton, with contributions from artists Aaron Angell and Jesse Wine. With an introduction by editors Sam Thorne and Sara Matson, the book takes a fresh look at the trajectory of the ceramics studio."

About this title

About the Author

Sam Thorne is director at Nottingham Contemporary.Sara Matson is an exhibitions and displays curator at Tate St Ives."

From the Back Cover

From the rise of studio pottery in the 1910s to a number of new commissions by a young generation of UK-based artists, That Continuous Thing traces the changing shape of theceramics studio over the last century, from the radical to the apparently traditional. Opening with exchange between Japan and the UK in 1910s and 1920s through the emergence of studio potters such as Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada and Dora Billington, the book leads onto the Californian 'clay revolution' of the 1950s and 1960s, with sculptures by the pioneering artist Voulkos. The book also includes works by contemporary artists made over the last three years at Angell's London-based Troy Town Art Pottery, which has been described as 'a radical and psychedelic workshop for artists'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tate Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1849764336
• ISBN 13: 9781849764339
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Sam Thorne, Sara Matson