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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: potters who popularized ceramics as they worked with or taught male counterparts like John Cage, Peter Voulkos, and Ken Price.
Sorkin focuses on three Americans who promoted ceramics as an advanced artistic medium: Marguerite Wildenhain, a Bauhaus-trained potter and writer; Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards, who renounced formalism at Black Mountain College to pursue new performative methods; and Susan Peterson, best known for her live throwing demonstrations on public television. Together, these women pioneered a hands-on teaching style and led educational and therapeutic activities for war veterans, students, the elderly, and many others. Far from being an isolated field, ceramics offered a sense of community and social engagement, which, Sorkin argues, crucially set the stage for later participatory forms of art and feminist collectivism.
Sorkin focuses on three Americans who promoted ceramics as an advanced artistic medium: Marguerite Wildenhain, a Bauhaus-trained potter and writer; Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards, who renounced formalism at Black Mountain College to pursue new performative methods; and Susan Peterson, best known for her live throwing demonstrations on public television. Together, these women pioneered a hands-on teaching style and led educational and therapeutic activities for war veterans, students, the elderly, and many others. Far from being an isolated field, ceramics offered a sense of community and social engagement, which, Sorkin argues, crucially set the stage for later participatory forms of art and feminist collectivism.
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women
kitchen
potters,
237
women
veterans,
130–31
Wood,
Beatrice,
50
Woolf,
Virginia,
228–29
“work
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writers
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Wunsch,
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118–19
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263n30
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128–34,
136–37;
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movement
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Craft as Collective Practice
- One. Ceramics: The Medium and Its Discontents
- Two. Forms-of-Life: Marguerite Wildenhain's Pond Farm
- Three. Zen Veterans and the Vernacular: The Black Mountain Pottery Seminar
- Four. M.C. Richards's Vanishing Point
- Five. Women Kitchen Potters: Susan Peterson, "The Julia Child of Ceramics"
- Epilogue. Live Form Disseminated
- Notes
- Index