Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community

by Jenni Sorkin

Ceramics had a far-reaching impact in the second half of the twentieth century, as its artists worked through the same ideas regarding abstraction and form as those for other creative mediums. Live Form shines new light on the relation of ceramics to the artistic avant-garde by looking at the central role of women in the field: potters who popularized ceramics as they worked with or taught male counterparts like John Cage, Peter Voulkos, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022630311X
• ISBN13: 9780226303116
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 10.1"