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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Ceramic arts, pottery, glass > General
Ceramics and the Museum interrogates the relationship between
art-oriented ceramic practice and museum practice in Britain since
1970. Laura Breen 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, she
examines what they tell us about the identity of ceramics at
particular moments in time. Highlighting the ways in which these
gestures have constructed ceramics as a category of artistic
practice, Breen argues that they reveal gaps between narrative and
practice, which in turn can be used to deconstruct the art.
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