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A chosen path : the ceramic art of Karen Karnes

Karnes, Karen 1925- (artist.). Shapiro, Mark (Mark Joshua) 1955- (editor.). Arizona State University Art Museum. (Added Author).

Summary: Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body of work she has produced in her more than sixty years in the studio is remarkable for its depth, personal voice, and consistent innovation. Many of her pieces defy category, invoking body and landscape, pottery and sculpture, male and female, hand and eye. Equally compelling are Karnes's experiences in some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation: from the worker-owned cooperative housing of her childhood, to Brooklyn College under modernist Serge Chermayeff, to North Carolina's avant-garde Black Mountain College, to the Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, New York, which Karnes helped establish as an experiment in integrating art, life, family, and community. This book, designed to accompany an exhibit of Karnes's works organized by Peter Held, curator of ceramics for the Arizona State University Art Museum's Ceramic Research Center, offers a comprehensive look at the life and work of Karnes. Edited by highly regarded studio potter Mark Shapiro, it combines essays by leading critics and scholars with color reproductions of more than sixty of her works, providing new perspectives for understanding the achievements of this extraordinary artist.

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  • ISBN: 9780807868133
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (xvi, 173 pages : illustrations (some colour))
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

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General Note:
"This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona."--Title page verso.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Ariz., Sept. 17, 2010-Jan. 8, 2011; Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, N.C., Feb. 1-June 30, 2011; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, N.H., Aug. 27-Dec. 3, 2011; Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wis., Jan. 31-May 27, 2012; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif., June 23-Sept. 30, 2012.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-161) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword : Karen Karnes, modernist / Garth Clark -- Curator's statement / Peter Held -- Introduction / Mark Shapiro -- Karen Karnes : an American life in seven contrasts / Christopher Benfey -- The woman behind the pot / Jody Clowes -- Individual and collective : Karen Karnes and the twentieth-century craft movement / Janet Koplos -- Her pot / Edward Lebow -- In her own words / Karen Karnes.

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