New Wave Clay: Ceramic Design, Art and Architecture

New Wave Clay: Ceramic Design, Art and Architecture
New Wave Clay: Ceramic Design, Art and Architecture

New Wave Clay: Ceramic Design, Art and Architecture 

By Tom Morris

Throughout the twentieth century, ceramics were widely divided into two sectors. Studio pottery was a reaction to the mass-produced wares of the Industrial Revolution, and fine art by contemporary artists, who used clay in their practice but rejected many of their traditional codes of practice. The unprecedented increase in ceramic popularity over the last five years has helped create a new type of potter: a ceramic designer, a part-craftsman, a part-designer, a bridge between ceramic craft, collectable design and fine art.

These ceramists include product designers who use clay as a creative expression, classically trained potters who create design-led pieces, and interior decorators, illustrators, and graphic designers. Its collective output includes furniture, decorative objects, murals and vessels: not art, not craft, but design. The book aims to show the diversity of this creative production field and how history, craftsmanship, technology, and design all intersect today, creating a new type of designer—and a new kind of ceramic designer. The book is divided into four thematic chapters. Written contributions from designers, decorators and collectors accompany it.

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