That continuous thing
Subtitle: artists and the ceramics studio, 1920-today
By: edited by Sara Matson and Sam Thorne
Contributors: Tate Gallery St Ives
Publisher: Tate St Ives in association with Tate Publishing
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781849764339
Subjects: Pottery; Art pottery; Exhibitions; Ceramic sculpture; History; Ceramics
Other titles: Artists and the ceramics studio, 1920-today
Description: 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 the ceramics 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 on to 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."
Notes: Published to support the development of the exhibition "That Continuous Thing: Artists & the Ceramics Studio, 1920-Today" at Tate St Ives, March 31-September 3, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-148) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : that continuous thing / -- Sam Thorne and Sara Matson; title: Towards a standard  -- Bernard Leach; title: Beyond East and West?  -- Edmund de Waal; title: Leach in Japan  -- Sōetsu Yanagi; title: Factive plasticity : the abstract pottery of William Staite Murray  -- Julian Stair; title: American potters today  -- Alison Britton; title: Peter Voulkos and Ken Price  -- Glenn Adamson; title: Out of the studio  -- Tanya Harrod; title: The plant : notes on Troy Town Art Pottery  -- Aaron Angell; title: In conversation  -- Sam Thorne and Jesse Wine; title: Work, practice and site -- Glenn Adamson.