Live Form Women Ceramics And Community By Jenni Sorkin

Sorkin proposes that the performative nature of throwing as used by wildenhain richards and peterson predicated the artist performer and positions live form as an important tool that has implications beyond individual art production stretching its influence to learning and the community.

Live form women ceramics and community by jenni sorkin.

Live form shines new light on the relation of ceramics to. Women ceramics and community university of chicago press international art critic jenni sorkin uses a biographical approach to redefine the history of post war avant garde performative practice through a proto feminist reading of three women who dedicated their lives to ceramics and alternative pedagogies. In her new book live form. Women ceramics and community by jenni sorkin hardcover 45 00 only 6 left in stock more on the way.

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. In doing so sorkin elevates ceramics out of. 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.