Author:
Levin, Elaine.
Publisher:New York : H.N. Abrams, c1988.
Description:351 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 343-346.
Note:pt. 1. From folk pottery to industry 1600-1876 -- ch. 1. Handcraft foundation for clay -- ch. 2. Industrialization of clay -- pt. 2. Art pottery movement 1876-1918 -- ch. 3. Arts and crafts movement -- ch. 4. Early art potteries -- ch. 5. Art nouveau: form and decoration unified -- ch. 6. Consequences of the art pottery movement -- pt. 3. Art deco: the dominance of sculpture 1918-1942 -- ch. 7. American decorative arts -- ch. 8. Depression sculpture -- pt. 4. Vessel revival 1930-1955 -- ch. 9. Three directions for the vessel -- ch. 10. Defining a vessel aesthetic -- pt. 5. Abstract expressionism: its effects and ramifications 1955-1965 -- ch. 11. Postwar artistic ferment -- ch. 12. Transformations in form and surface -- pt. 6. Clay for an age of contradictions 1965-1975 -- ch. 13. Realism and the common object -- ch. 14. Resilient vessel -- ch. 15. Abstract and architectonic imagery -- pt. 7. Post-modernism 1975-1987 -- ch. 16. Figurative imagery and the human condition -- ch. 17. Permissive pluralism.
Note:Gift of Edwin and Mary Scheier.
