Recently added articles from Ceramics Technical:
Blue columns: Leena Mannila reports on a commissioned installation by Poul Jensen.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] POUL JENSEN'S LATEST public commission Blue Columns at the Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo (2006) conveys his understanding of the ceramic medium. A collaborative project with his wife, painter and printmaker, Anne Marie Wilhelmsen, the aesthetic ...
Cuban ceramics biennial: Lowell Baker reviews an exhibition of 28 Cuban artists.
Jul 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS I have had the pleasure and honour of being able to travel to Cuba on an official licence through The University of Alabama. In those few years I became friends with several Cuban artists and fell in love with the people and the ...
Ornamentation and detail: Tazra Miller finds a reference to art history in the work of Joni Moriyama.
Jul 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHENEVER I VISIT A MUSEUM, I tend to focus first on the details of the object rather than its significance and cultural identity. I lean in to admire the blemishes, the artisanship and the surface. I crouch down low to meet it at eye level or, if it is ...
About a thousand chickens aka more meets the eye: Erin Jackson gives some reasons behind her installation works.
Jul 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HAVING THE CHANCE TO WRITE about my work, my thoughts drift to my latest piece, About A Thousand Chickens, aka More Meets The Eye. It is an installation of about 1000 chickens and one large sculpture in the Eve Drewlowe Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. The ...
City and countryside, history and the potter's art: David Palmer has made a study of the history of pottery.
Jul 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Oriental thinking, and indeed all pre-industrial thinking, knows that though nature may seem hard-hearted and her laws inexorable and cruel, yet she herself is the raw material you are working with and of which you yourself are necessarily part. ...