Title: Keramikkens sprog
Description: Peder Rasmussen is a performing ceramic artist and explores the many forms of expression of ceramics in a lively way. Through a number of well-known and lesser-known masterpieces, he deals with ceramics in detail in descriptive and analytical texts that open up new ways of understanding ceramics. 'Keramikkens sprog' shows us that we do not have to settle for the overly narrow categories when we articulate ceramics: beautiful or ugly, usable or for decoration, but like other art can have an updated vocabulary of concepts and vocabulary. Well-known potters such as Axel Salto and Thorvald Bindesbøll are of course represented in the book. But as is the case with many other potters, there is only rarely written direct analytical about their individual works. This book changes that when it goes very close to both well-known masterpieces and innovative experiments. With everything from very small works, like a small jug by Ursula Munch Petersen, to gigantic ones, like Asger Jorn's relief at Aarhus State High School. Peder Rasmussen is a trained ceramicist. From 2011-13 he was chairman of the Statens Kunstfonds Committee for Arts and Crafts and Design and is also behind numerous articles and several books on ceramics. Peder Rasmussen is the recipient of the Statens Kunstfond's lifelong honor award
Subjects: Pottery, Ceramics
Places: Denmark