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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818899603321

Autore

Karnes Karen <1925->

Titolo

A chosen path : the ceramic art of Karen Karnes / / edited by Mark Shapiro ; foreword by Garth Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2010

ISBN

979-88-908860-3-3

0-8078-6813-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 173 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShapiroMark <1955-> (Mark Joshua)

Disciplina

738.092

Soggetti

Art pottery, American - 20th century

Art pottery, American - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword: Karen Karnes, Modernist; Curator's Statement; Introduction; Karen Karnes: An American Life in Seven Contrasts; The Woman behind the Pot; Individual and Collective: Karen Karnes and the Twentieth-Century Craft Movement; Her Pot; In Her Own Words; Plates; Exhibition Checklist; Chronology with Selected Exhibitions; Selected Public Collections; Bibliography; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body of work she has produced in her more than sixty years in the studio is remarkable for its depth, personal voice, and consistent innovation. Many of her pieces defy category, invoking body and landscape, pottery and sculpture, male and female, hand and eye. Equally compelling are Karnes's experiences in some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation: from the worker-owned cooperative housing of her childhood, to Brooklyn Coll