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Picture This!
Ceramics and Pictorial Spaces
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Theory bookChapter 4
The Narrative Esthetics
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2D/3DFunction/Decoration
Form/SurfaceImage/object
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Ceramics is the art of timeIt is the ultimate archival art formCeramics is the art of the future
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How to archive it?
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The Frame
and framing devices
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Altamura Painter, Fall of Troy, 465 BCE Odysseus under a ram, 475 BCE
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Egyptian wall painting
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Etruscan, Vulci, 650 bce Form/image articulation
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Leagros group, 510 bce Niobid painter, 450 bce
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Berlin painter, 490-460 BCE the form as frame
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object silhouette as frame
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ellipsis (missing elements)
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Elision (partial representation)
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Extension beyond the frame figure/ground reversal
Andokides 525 BCE
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Syleus, 490 bce Getty Museumold and recent restauration
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Continuous composition, Dinos 430 BCE
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Circular composition , Kodros 440 BCE
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Circular composition(concentration), Triptolemos 480bce
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Reverse Circular (expansion), Phiale 430 bce
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active framing, pressurized tension
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performative framing
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Painting reference?
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Painting reference? Pronomos 400 bce
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contestation of the narrative
Richard Milette
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Ceramics and Photography
Chemical and physical processesParallax distortion of space
Negative/positive and multiplesForm of archives, of memories and of experiences
Both art of time, of fleetingness and eternity
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parallax distortion of space by convex form
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Minai ware, Iran, 12th C. flat perception yet deep convex space
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Nazca and Moche, Peru
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Cochiti PuebloDiego Romero
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Cochiti PuebloVirgil Ortiz
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The Seven Gods of the UnderworldMaya Aj Maxam (signed)
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The occidental pictorial space
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Xanto Avelli, 16th C. ItalyMaiolica painter
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Multiple systems: decorative, heraldic, representational, etc.
on one object
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Urbino, Italy, 16th C.
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Francesco Xanto Avelli 1528 and 1537
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Andrea della Robbia 1505 Buglioni 1520
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Surface representation on 3D formsSculptural Ceramics
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Ceramic Sculpture????
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Sculptural Ceramics
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Sculptural CeramicsFunctional Ceramics
Architectural Ceramics, etc…
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Patti Warashina surface/form conflation
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2D/3D continuityPatti Warashina 1976-77
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The Blue Willow Pattern
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Blue Willow, Thomas Minton, 1780 English Delftware, 1770
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Olly Moss Paul Scott, “Fukushima”
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Brendan Tang (destabilisation) Hugo Kaagman
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Michelle Erickson
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The oriental pictorial space
Void and Active Presence
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Qing, China, Peaches and Bats,18th C.
Kakiemon, Japan, 17th C.
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Meissen, Germany, 1740Kakiemon, Japan, 18th C
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Contemporary KakiemonKakiemon, Japan, 18th C
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Du Paquier Vienna, 18th CKakiemon, Japan, 18th C
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Meissen, Germany, 18th CImari, Japan, 18th C
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Du Paquier Vienna, 18th CKakiemon, Japan, 18th C
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China, Qing Dynasty transitional framingFamille Rose,
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Kenzan, Japan, exterior/interior continuity
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Wayne Highby, exterior/interior continuity
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Kitaoji Rosanjin, exterior/interior contradiction
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destabilizingstable framing
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destabilizingKurt Weiser
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Contemporary Examples
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Ai Wei Wei, reversal of viewpoint
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Paper cut-outsBovey Lee
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Meissen, Germany, 18th c.Léopold Foulem
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Meissen, 1730’s (dynamic) rococo framing
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The Depth-Box
Penetrating the form
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Worcester, England, 1800’sCharles Meigh and Sons
Crystal Palace Vase, 1851
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Rookwood pottery, 1900
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Rockwood Rozenburg 1909
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The Continuous, all around surface
Perceptual and psychological reversal
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Rookwood Art Pottery
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Frederick Hurten Rhead
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The Surface as Volume
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Corrida, 1950’sPablo Picasso
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3 D surface (!) surface as formLéopold L. Foulem
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LA landscapeKen Price, Club Atomica
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Wayne HigbyPaul Mathieu, Odalisque Bowl
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Anne Krauss, USA, 1990’s
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Jumpin’ at the MoonlodgeMichael Frimkess, 1963
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MemoriesMichael Frimkess
Ecology Krater, 1971
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Michael Frimkess
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Grayson Perry, Emotional Landscape
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Daniel Kruger 2000Daniel Kruger 1990’s
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Paul Mathieu “The Avowal of the Flesh” interactive framing
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Paul Mathieu “Day” interactive framing
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Paul Mathieu “Night” (other side)
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Paul Mathieu, “The Arrows of Time (for S.W.H.)”, 1990
Karl Skoe Fredriksen
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detailJeanie Mah
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Myungjin Kim Soo-Jong Ree
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Jonathan Hopp/Sarah Auslander Urban Vases 2004
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Kevin SnipesBeth Lo
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Viola Frey, 1977Edward Eberle, 2000
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Walter Ostrom “Memories” non-directional viewpoints
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Walter Ostrom Irak War plates, 2003
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The Treachery of ImagesRichard Milette
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Paul Scott Mad Cow Bone China Meat Carving Dishthe conflation of material, subject and function
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Also, Kohler workers mural 1990’s
Ann Agee, New Jersey
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Pink Set 2010Ann Agee, Gross Domestic
Product 2011
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12 steps containerMatt Nolen, Credit Card jar
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Handicapped TrophyGlitter and Be Gay
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Vanity vanityKathy King
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remedy holderKathy King
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birth control pill jarCondom Holder
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Hockey VaseMariko Peterson
Carnivores of Canada
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Bad Art/ Bad PotteryGrayson Perry
Art/Fashion Same Thing
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Boring Fashion People You are Here
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Akio Takamori the surface within the form, unglazed image on glazed ground
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The viewer in the reflected surface
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TransferenceSex Object
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Janet Deboos Pots on pots on pots
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Felicity Aylieff
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Philip Eglin, bucket
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detailRichard Notkin
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Viola Freypicture
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What is important is not the story. What is important is HOW the story is told.
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To do with Ceramics what can only be done with Ceramics
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