Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture

Preface; Introduction: ceramics in a place of cultural discourse, Clare Twomey. Section 1 The Expanded Field: Productive friction: ceramic practice and the museum since 1970, Laura Breen; The walls come tumbling down, Martina Margetts; Damaging the historic fabric: Keith Harrison at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Alun Graves; Out of the studio, Tanya Harrod. Section 2 The Museum as Context: Ceramics on show: domesticity, destruction and manifestations of risk-taking, Laura Gray; Ceramics process in the museum: revolution or recidivism?, Glen R. Brown; The anatomy of a home: Saarinen House, Anders Ruhwald; Jung's amphora: ceramics, collections and the collective unconscious, Mella Shaw. Section 3 Audience Engagement: Ceramic art in social contexts, Tessa Peters; A show of hands: the spectacle of apprenticeship, Kimberley Chandler and Stephen Knott; Cotton fields and baseball fields, Theaster Gates; Crinson Jug from clay to the grave (and beyond): exploring the ceramic object as a gathering point, Christopher McHugh. Section 4 Process and Material: The art of appropriation, Jorunn Veiteberg (translated from Norwegian by Douglas Ferguson); Collected activity: making in the museum, Phoebe Cummings; We claim the bowl in the name of craft, Namita Gupta Wiggers; Love notes to buddhas: are you land or water?, Linda Sormin. Section 5 Curation and Authorship: Possibilities regained: transitions through clay, James Beighton; Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon, Juliet Carey; Queering the museum, Matt Smith; Ego and salve in the Gardiner Museum, Rachel Gotlieb. Index.