Clay's tectonic shift, 1956-1968 : John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos / Mary Davis MacNaughton, editor ; with contributions by Michael Duncan ... [et al.].
MacNaughton, Mary Davis.; Duncan, Michael, 1953-; Mason, John, 1927-2019.; Price, Kenneth, 1935-2012.; Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002.; Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery.; J. Paul Getty Museum.; Pacific Standard Time (Exhibition)
2012
NK4027.L67 C53 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Clay's tectonic shift, 1956-1968 : John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos / Mary Davis MacNaughton, editor ; with contributions by Michael Duncan ... [et al.].
ISBN 9781606061053
1606061054
9780979009280 pbk
0979009286 pbk
Publication Details [Los Angeles] : J. Paul Getty Museum ; Claremont, Calif. : Scripps College, Ruth Chandler Williams Gallery, c2012.
Language English
Description 231 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm.
Call Number NK4027.L67 C53 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 730.9794
Summary " Clay's Tectonic Shift focuses on artists John Mason (b. 1927), Kenneth Price (1935-2012), and Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) and their radical early work in postwar Los Angeles where they formed the vanguard of a new California ceramics movement. The three artists broke from the craft tradition that emphasized the function of a piece. Experimenting with scale, surface, color, and volume, their work was instrumental in elevating ceramics from a craft to a fine art. Earlier exhibitions and publications stated that key innovations in this new ceramics movement were made at the Otis Art institute and that its direction was defined by a group of students surrounding the charismatic leader Voulkos. The truth is that the new trend in ceramics was driven by the works that Price, Mason, and Voulkos made in a subsequent, independent phase when they were working as professional artists in Los Angeles, and the goal of Clay's Tectonic Shift is to correct that misperception. These three artists followed individual paths as they willfully propelled a new use of the medium into the mainstream professional arena, where it was widely recognized and documented. An exhibition of the same name will be on view at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College from January 21 through April 8, 2012, as part of Pacific Standard Time, a collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California to tell the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene."--books.google.
Note "This book is published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation, on the occasion of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-219) and index.
Added Author MacNaughton, Mary Davis.
Duncan, Michael, 1953-
Mason, John, 1927-2019.
Price, Kenneth, 1935-2012.
Voulkos, Peter, 1924-2002.
Added Corporate Author Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery.
J. Paul Getty Museum.
Added Meeting Name Pacific Standard Time (Exhibition)
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Preface : Culture, clay, and credibility / Peter Plagens
Introduction : Clay's sculptural turn / Mary Davis MacNaughton
Vanguard ceramics : John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos / Frank Lloyd
Confluence : people, ideas, and art : southern California, 1945-1970 / Karen Tsujimoto
How clay got cool : setting the stage for Peter Voulkos's radical shift / Michael Duncan
Unexpected connections : clay sculpture in LA and the avant-garde / Mary Davis MacNaughton
A burgeoning art scene with room for ceramics / Suzanne Muchnic
Annotated bibliography : critical response to early work by Mason, Price, and Voulkos.

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