20th Century Ceramics (World of Art) by Edmund de Waal
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ISBN: 9780500203712
Thames & Hudson, 24 November 2003
Paperback, 224 pages
Potters long ago left behind the notion that pots must be purely useful or merely pleasant everyday objects.
At the turn of the twentieth century, ceramics―as in other media in both the decorative and fine arts―underwent revolutionary change. The potter emerged from the anonymity of the workshop and made more individualistic statements in clay than ever before.
Ceramics have kept pace with, or even led, new movements in art, from art nouveau, art deco, the Bauhaus, and futurism, through abstract expressionism, pop and performance, to land art and installation art. Stylistic and technical influences are considered here in context, from orientalism and color theory to modernism, postmodernism, and the profuse diversity of approaches that characterizes the end of the century.