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Postmodern Ceramics by Mark Del Vecchio - $30.00

AA reference book having 327 illustrations, 247 in color. Postmodern Ceramics provides a stunning international overview of the richness and diversity of ceramic art since c.1980. Mark Del Vecchio surveys the achievement of over 130 masters of contemporary ceramics from more than twenty-five countries, among them Ralph Bacerra, Adrian Saxe, Betty Woodman, Akio Takamori and Andrew Lord, analyzing their various approaches by presenting the work in twelve themes: the postmodern look; post-minimalism; pattern and decoration; the multiple vessel; organic abstraction; the real/super-real; history, culture, and time; the image and the vessel; the vessel as image; figural sculpture; abstract sculpture; and pos-industrialism. Garth Clark, perhaps the best-known ceramic historian in the world, shows in his introduction how this great burst of creative energy and innovation provided an escape route from the unconsummated, antagonistic, and demoralizing relationship that had existed between ceramics and modernism.

Complete with illustrated biographies of each of the artists and a detailed bibliography, the book brims with colorful ceramics and provides the depth of information necessary for it to become the standard reference work for the professionals and amateurs, makers and collectors.

Shards, by Garth Clark $35.00

Garth Clark is the leading international writer on modern and contemporary ceramics today, a provocative, controversial by deeply informed voice...Shards is a selection of his best writings culled by editor John Pagliaro from one hundred and fifty articles, catalog essays, monographs and papers.

Free Spirit, The New native American Potter, by Garth Clark $15.00