| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-149) and index. |
| Contents |
Robert Turner: a considered art -- A formal art education -- A personal quest in a world at war -- Finding ceramics -- A studio potter -- An expanding aesthetic framework -- A break from school and studio -- A journey to the old world and a return with new eyes -- Past the logjam into a torrent of mature work -- Travel to Cape Cod and Nova Scotia for beach and shore -- The geometric bowls evolve -- The Southwest and Native American influence -- Alfred University -- The Akan and its progeny -- The art world after Alfred -- New work of the 1980s and 1990s -- Continued evolution -- Old age -- Achieving wholeness -- Turner in context -- Nonbeing -- Alfred University and Black Mountain College -- "Joining in" -- Achieving "rightness," interpreting scale -- Rising above perception. |
| Summary |
"Robert Turner is one of the most important ceramic artists in the United States today. Distinguishing himself in the art pottery movement of the sixties, Turner rose to prominence when he moved from functional pieces to sculptural forms and began to create a body of work notable for its dynamic yet serene forms." "In this first monograph on the artist's long and fascinating career, Marsha Miro has taken a maverick approach with her incisive text, interspersing telling comments from Turner himself with her own explorations of the artist's achievements. Much weight and thought is given to the creative process as revealed in her extensive interviews. A second essay by ceramicist Tony Hepburn provides a personal commentary on Turner's art, while Janet Koplos, a senior editor at Art in America, contributes a reflective introduction." "Illustrated with pivotal works spanning the artist's distinguished career, Robert Turner - Shaping Silence not only relates the compelling story of a young artist's journey toward formal mastery but furnishes essential documentation on one of the most intriguing periods of the American crafts movement. Artists, collectors, and students will find this volume inspirational, and invaluable on many levels."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Turner, Robert, 1913-2005.
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Turner, Robert, 1913-2005 (OCoLC)fst01899336
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Potters -- United States -- Biography.
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Potters. (OCoLC)fst01073567
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| Added Author |
Turner, Robert, 1913-2005.
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Hepburn, Tony.
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| Added Title |
Shaping silence--a life in clay |
| ISBN |
4770029462 |
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9784770029461 |
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