Playing with Clay
This course introduces students to contemporary ceramic practices in India and abroad.
We look at developments in functional and utilitarian ceramics and also sculptural works.
Students propose the work that they would like to undertake and are encouraged to play with clay.
The course would also seek to critically understand how traditional and studio potters and ceramic artists, interpret "play".
"Play" is deceptively simple a word. As children we surely understand what it means to play; as adults, it is not as straightforward as it may seem,
to be able to "play". It has been observed that though we may like to shape clay, it is clay that shapes us.
The course shall seek to unravel some of these conundrums through reflective practice.
Date
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Screenings / Slide-Talks |
10
February 2025
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Indian Ceramics: History and Practice |
11
February 2025
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Ceramics: From Objects to Ideas |
Catalogues
Journals
Contemporary Ceramics
References
Shafer Thomas, Pottery Decoration, Watson-Guptil, 1976
Jones Jeffery, Studio Pottery in Britain 1900 - 2005, A&C Black, 2007
Singh Gurucharan, Pottery in India, Vikas Publication, 1979
Harvey David, Imaginative Pottery, Pitman Publication, 1976
Audrey Blackman, Rolled Pottery Figures, Pitman Publication, 1978
Livingstone Andrew, Petrie Kevin (Eds), Ceramics Reader, Bloomsbury, 2017
Velar Ramu, Geetha V., A Potter's Tale, Tara Books, 2021
Clark Garth, Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878 - 1978, E.P. Dutton, 1979
Clark Garth (Ed), An Anthology of Writing on Modern Ceramic Art, E.P. Dutton, 1978
Miller Roy Andrew, Japanese Ceramics, Toto Shuppan, 1960
Sullivan Michael, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of Sir Allan and Lady Barlow, Faber & Faber, 1963
Wills Geoffery, Wedgewood, Pyramid Books, 1989
Kenny John B,. Ceramic Design, Chilton Books, 1963
Sotsass Ettore, Ceramics, Chronicle Books, 1995
Nagumo Ryu, Creative Ceramics, Japan Pub., 1974
Taylor Luisia, Ceramics Bible, Chronicle Books, 2011
Whiting David, Modern British Potters and their Studios, A7C Black, 2009
Phethean Richard, Throwing, A&C Black, 2012
MRIN: ICAF Journal, Volumes 1-4