Clark, Garth,  1947- <br/><br/>
Shards :  Garth Clark on ceramic art / 
edited by John Pagliaro ; foreword by Peter Schjeldahl ; preface by Ed Lebow. 
 - First edition. 
 - xiv, 515 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> Foreword /  Preface /  Editor's Note /  Artists --  Arman --  The Fire's Path /  Caro And Clay: Retained Innocence --  The Queen Of Decoupage: Grayson Perry's Guerilla Ceramics --  Lucio Fontana's Ceramics --  Cracks In The Sidewalk: A Chronological Study Of The Art And World Of Viola Frey --  Geert Lap: Some Notes On Minimalism In Ceramic Art --  Interior Dances: A Personal Response To The Vessels Of Babs Haenen --  Sam Haile 1909-1948: A Memorial --  Murray And Leach: A Study In Contrasts --  Pop And Circumstance: Ron Nagle's Cups --  George Ohr: Avant-Garde Volumes --  The Pottery Of Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye --  Resident Allien From The Land Of Pop: Richard Slee In Context --  Searching For Hans Spinner --  Subversive Majesty: Peter Voulkos' Rocking Pot --  Beatrice Wood: The Art Of Ceramic Light --  A True And Romantic Pragmatist --  Betty Woodman: Storm In A Teacup - An Anecdotal Discussion Of Function --  Issues --  American Ceramic and General History --  Abstract Expressionism Revisited - Part One: The Otis Years, 1954 to 1959 --  Abstract Expressionism Revisited (Voulkos' Revolution) Part Two: Berkeley, the 1960s and Beyond --  Criticism, Theory, Scholarship and Semantics --  Ceramic Education And The Culture Of Amateurism --  Voulkos' Dilemma: Toward A Ceramic Canon --  Between A Toilet And A Hard Place: Is the Ceramic Avant-Garde a Contradiction in Terms? --  Ceramic History And The Avant-Garde --  Commentary from 1977 --  Function and Design --  The Future Of Functional Pottery - Part One: An Argument for Free Design --  The Future Of Functional Pottery - Part Two: Bernard's Orphans - Searching for Neo in Classical --  The Purist, The Symbolist. The Stylist: Utility in Contemporary American Ceramics --  Marketplace --  Porcelain And Gold: The Ceramic Marketplace in the 21st Century --  Homer, Ceramics And Marketplace Anxieties.  Peter Schjeldahl --  Ed Lebow --  John Pagliaro --  Michael Cardew --  Pt. 1.  Pt. 2.  Sect. 1.  Sect. 2.  Sect. 3.  Sect. 4. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0972509712 9780972509718 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pottery--20th century<br/>Ceramic sculpture--20th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NK3930 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>730.09047