Libros de Cerámica y porcelana, página 8 de 49

En el mundo del coleccionismo, la cerámica es la categoría que mayor número de adeptos ha tenido desde el siglo dieciocho hasta la actualidad, siendo la isla de Mallorca uno de los lugares en los que ha habido un interes especifico hacia ella. Jose Cabrer

A magnificent catalogue of the V&A's collection of twentieth-century and contemporary British ceramics.Contemporary ceramicists working in Britain, including Rachel Kneebone, Grayson Perry and Edmund de Waal, are part of a broader international group of artists experimenting with clay, considering how it intersects and works in dialogue with other art forms and with culture at large. Recent experimentation with the medium owes much to the rapid evolution of ceramics into an expanded field, and to the work of mid- to late 20th-century potters and their reinvention of ceramics as a radical and contemporary art practice. The pioneering methods and rethinking of form in the work of exponents such as Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and Alan Caiger-Smith whose reference points were drawn from East Asia, Africa, the ancient Mediterranean and the Middle East as much as from their own heritage continue to influence and inspire contemporary makers. In his introductory essay, Alun Graves, Senior Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, provides all lovers of ceramics collectors, practitioners, historians and those interested in modern and contemporary art and crafts with the historical context, documenting the mediums shift into an expressive, and sometimes interventionist, art form. An extensive visual catalogue, Studio Ceramics is the primary reference for 20th-century and contemporary British studio ceramics, and a record of the national collection of British ceramics held at the V&A.

El treball i la transformació del fang, de la terra tova, en objectes ha acompanyat la humanitat des de fa mil·lennis. N?hem fet atuells útils per a la vida quotidiana i per al treball. N?hem fet peces destinades a honorar els deus i ens n?hem servit per envoltar-nos d?obres de gran bellesa. Gracies al foc, la terra i l?aigua i gracies tambe a les tecniques que hem anat aprenent i millorant a cada generacio, hem pogut crear tota mena de peces que ens han acompanyat durant generacions i generacions, al llarg de la vida. En Jaume Vila i la Nuria Salo fa molts anys que es dediquen a la ceramica. No nomes, a l?elaboracio de peces uniques per a l?us diari, tambe a fer obres que contribueixen a embellir l?entorn de pobles i ciutats. Des de fa molts anys tambe es dediquen a la docencia. A Tornar a la ceramica. Manual practic, us conviden a entrar en aquest mon fascinant i us n?expliquen els secrets mes basics perque tothom que vulgui, seguint les seves inquietuds i la seva creativitat, pugui començar a coneixer aquest vell ofici que transforma la terra en peces uniques i necessaries, d?una bellesa perdurable.

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