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Live Form - Women, Ceramics, and Community (Hardcover)
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Live Form - Women, Ceramics, and Community (Hardcover)
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Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the
twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas
regarding abstraction and form as those for other creative mediums.
Live Form shines new light on the relation of ceramics to the
artistic avant-garde by looking at the central role of women in the
field: potters who popularized ceramics as they worked with or
taught male counterparts like John Cage, Peter Voulkos, and Ken
Price. Sorkin focuses on three Americans who promoted ceramics as
an advanced artistic medium: Marguerite Wildenhain, a
Bauhaus-trained potter and writer; Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards,
who renounced formalism at Black Mountain College to pursue new
performative methods; and Susan Peterson, best known for her live
throwing demonstrations on public television. Together, these women
pioneered a hands-on teaching style and led educational and
therapeutic activities for war veterans, students, the elderly, and
many others. Far from being an isolated field, ceramics offered a
sense of community and social engagement, which, Sorkin argues,
crucially set the stage for later participatory forms of art and
feminist collectivism.
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