20th Century Ceramics Contents
Introduction
1900–20
The Theatre of Technique: Doat and Robineau • Orientalist styles: Chaplet to Bindesbøll • Art Nouveau • Gauguin and Expressionism • Ceramics and painting • Native styles: reinventing the vernacular • Ceramics and interiors: Vienna and Prague
1920–45
After the Russian Revolution: ‘the parade of objects’ • Scandinavia • The Bauhaus • Italian Futurism • Art Deco • Women and ceramics • figures and figuration • Romantic Nationalism: Bernard Leach and Japan • Britain in the 1930s • Germany and the USA in the 1930s
1945–65
Japan: radical beginnings • Isamu Noguchi • Postwar Europe: Salto, Coper, Duckworth • ‘High unseriousness’: painters and clay • Pablo Picasso • Joan Miró • CoBrA • Lucio Fontana • Reactions to Picasso in the 1950s • Studio pottery after 1945 • Postwar America • Peter Voulkos and Otis
1965–2000
Pop and Funk ceramics • Critical commentaries, new contexts • ‘A Field of Possibilities’: Politics, Performance and Environment • Installation • Still life • Postmodernism • Nationalism • Conclusion
Select Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index