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'Clever ... Contemporary Ceramics teaches us [...] to think about its subject creatively ... a large and far-ranging volume' --Ceramic Review
'An essential work ... an engrossing compendium, with text from a master' --The Sunday Telegraph
'Dynamic and up-to-the-minute ... a richly visual resource' --Antiques Diary
'Beautiful' --The Daily Telegraph
'Emmanuel Cooper has delivered a charged and exciting survey of contemporary ceramic practice ... This is a sourcebook of the highest calibre.'
--Crafts Magazine
'An essential work ... an engrossing compendium, with text from a master' --The Sunday Telegraph
'Dynamic and up-to-the-minute ... a richly visual resource' --Antiques Diary
'Beautiful' --The Daily Telegraph
'Emmanuel Cooper has delivered a charged and exciting survey of contemporary ceramic practice ... This is a sourcebook of the highest calibre.'
--Crafts Magazine
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This fresh global survey makes sense of a vast and increasingly diverse area of intense creativity. An essential and invaluable analysis of work from the last ten years, the book covers every aspect of contemporary ceramic practice and includes work of all scales from a few centimetres in size to vast room-sized installations. With over 600 stunning illustrations, and an author unique in his experience as a ceramist, educator, curator and critic, this comprehensive survey will be an indispensable guide for ceramists, students and collectors alike.
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diverse and exciting, 28 Jun 2010
By FlyingSnail - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Contemporary Ceramics (Hardcover)
This book offers a wide-ranging look at contemporary ceramic art, with emphasis on the 'art'. Not a book on pottery, though vessel forms are included. Rather, it gives a broad survey of contemporary art executed in clay. The format offers a few images per page with a brief discussion of each piece, all organized by general themes and approaches. The sheer range of styles and ideas is a treat, from ironic post-modern appropriations to meticulously crafted objects of beauty, and from political activism to personal introspection to pure aesthetics: in short, the full range of what's happening in art as currently manifested in clay. Cooper discusses technique when relevant, but this is not a how-to guide. He also deals with content and context where it is foregrounded, but it is not an art-history text. The many illustrations (small) and descriptions (short) make this a sampler of goodies, rather than an in-depth treatment, but well worth the nibble.I first encountered it when it when it was purchased by the library of the college where I teach ceramics, and I kept it checked out for quite a while, as every student who saw it seemed to come away with new interest and expanded sense of possibilities. I missed it after it was returned, and finally purchased my own copy (not something I do often).
Many books on current ceramics are of relevance only to those already interested in clay, and focus on objects that are of interest mainly to clay buffs. This book, however, is likely to be worthwhile to anyone following current sculpture in any medium, while offering new and exciting works even to those well-versed in contemporary ceramic art.
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Gorgeous, 26 Mar 2010
By NY Photo Director - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Contemporary Ceramics (Hardcover)
An incredible book for an incredible topic. Great photography, great selections. It was a gift to me, a newly-obsessed student of pottery, and I couldn't imagine a better gift to someone like me.
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