The ceramic presence in modern art
Subtitle: selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery
By: Sequoia Miller ; with an essay by John Stuart Gordon
Contributors: Gordon, John Stuart, 1977- writer of supplementary textual content; Yale University. Art Gallery
Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780300214406
Subjects: Yale University. Art Gallery; Yale University; Art collections; Art; Exhibitions; Ceramic sculpture; Ceramics; Modern Sculpture; Private collections
Description: "This lushly illustrated volume is the first to thoroughly examine postwar ceramic sculpture alongside other fine art of the period. The catalogue features over 80 objects by leading 20th-century ceramicists, including John Mason, Jim Melchert, Ken Price, Lucie Rie, and Peter Voulkos. Essays consider the art in connection with renowned paintings, sculptures in other media, and works on paper by artists such as Willem de Kooning, Isamu Noguchi, Mark Rothko, and Ed Ruscha. Juxtaposing ceramics with non-ceramic works, both visually and conceptually, and examining the visual, historical, and theoretical affinities among the objects, the authors demonstrate that the finest ceramics share the formal sophistication of the most celebrated artworks of the postwar period. As ceramics are increasingly recognized as integral to the wider field of contemporary art, this book offers new opportunities for understanding this important medium."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Yale University Art Gallery, September 4, 2015-January 3, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Director's forward / Jock Reynolds; title: Collector's forward / Linda Leonard Schlenger; title: Introduction; title: An informed passion: Linda Leonard Schlenger, collector and advocate; title: Theoretical connections: postwar ceramics and the historical avant-garde; title: Historical connections: Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and London; title: Formal connections: ceramics, painting, sculpture, and works on paper; title: The patron saint: George E. Ohr and the contemporary art world / John Stuart Gordon.