Over the last two decades of the twentieth century, the Ceramic Arts Foundation (formerly the Institute for Ceramic History) presented International Ceramics Symposiums in New York, Toronto, London and Amsterdam, among other cities. In the course of that work, it fundamentally changed the approach of ceramics to the field's modern history, to scholarship, and to criticism. The first symposium was held in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition, A Century of Ceramics in the United States 1878-1978, in Syracuse, New ...
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Over the last two decades of the twentieth century, the Ceramic Arts Foundation (formerly the Institute for Ceramic History) presented International Ceramics Symposiums in New York, Toronto, London and Amsterdam, among other cities. In the course of that work, it fundamentally changed the approach of ceramics to the field's modern history, to scholarship, and to criticism. The first symposium was held in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition, A Century of Ceramics in the United States 1878-1978, in Syracuse, New York, and opened with a keynote address by Clement Greenberg. The most recent attracted 3,500 participants, 65 national delegations and involved an arts festival spanning 73 museums and galleries. Garth Clark, the CAF's founding director and a noted ceramics scholar, has selected these symposium essays from eminent voices in mainstream art and design as well as the finest specialty writers on ceramics, past and present
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Publisher:
Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
Published:
2006
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17939078336
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Good+ 0919616453. B&W Photographs; Square Small 4to 9"-11" tall; 430 pages; 2006 The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Stout oversize paperback in pictorial french fold covers. Snugly bound copy has light dust spotting to the top edge and some light handling soil to the front edge. Some few instances oflight underlining and highlighting to a small number ofpages. Solid copy. Illustrated with b&w photos. G++ or better.
