Title: The Eloquent object :
Authors: Manhart, Marcia,; Manhart, Tom,; Haralson, Carol.; Philbrook Museum of Art.
Date: 1987
Publisher: Philbrook Museum of Art ;
Physical description: 289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: Aptly titled, this splendid tour de force treats readers to multifaceted investigations of memorable objects "shimmering with consequence," from the formally sublimeHarvey Littleton's prismatic glass arcs, Laura Andreson's quixotic luster-glazed porcelains; to the socially portentousJudy Chicago's feminist tableware; the satiricRobert Aronson's ceramic finger-key typewriter; the harrowingJames Surl's cruciform wood mobile, "Needle Man"; the technically awesomeStanley Lechtzin's electroformed silver jewelry; and just plain kitschKenny Scharf's "Van Chrome Television." The authors, curators of the exhibition at Tulsa's Philbrook Museum that formed the basis for this volume, highlight new directions over the last two decades in work in clay, glass, metals, fibers and wood.
Contents: The widening arcs / Marcia Manhart and Tom Manhart -- The art/craft connection / Rose Slivka -- Breaking the frames / Horace Freeland Judson -- The craft object in Western culture / Penelope Hunter-Stiebel -- Crafts and American art museums / Jonathan L. Fairbanks -- The idea of crafts in recent American art / Mary Jane Jacob -- Crafts is art : notes on crafts, on art, on criticism / John Perreault -- Give and takeout : toward a cross-cultural consciousness / Lucy R. Lippard -- Cultural pluralism and the American craft movement / George L. Aguirre -- Artifact and fiction / Ronda Kasl -- Neo-Primitivism and the sacred / Edwin L. Wade.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art, American--20th century; Art, American.; Decorative arts--United States--History--20th century.