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An abstract painter found his place as a great collector of American ceramics. His latest gift ushers the Metropolitan Museum of Art into the 21st century. ....
Exhibition at Oxford Ceramics Gallery featues some 40 works by 10 pioneering female artists Left of image: Bodil Manz, Shadow, slip cast porcelain (2019, 14.5 x 14.5 cms). Middle of image: Bodil Manz, For Dessau, slip cast porcelain (2019, 14.5 x 14.5 cms). Right of image: Bodil Manz, Scandinavia, slip cast porcelain (2019, 18 x 23 cms). Image: Michael Harvey. OXFORD .-Oxford Ceramics Gallery is presenting Pioneering Women, an exhibition featuring some 40 works by 10 pioneering female artists. The exhibition celebrates the significant contribution this group of artists has made to the development of contemporary ceramics, with a focus on the ceramic vessel form. From trailblazing figures such as Lucie Rie and Ladi Kwali to Bodil Manz, Magdalene Odundo and Jennifer Lee, the exhibition reflects a broad interpretation of formal ceramic traditions. The vessels on display range from Japanese clay work and the domestic pottery forms of Denmark, Korea and Nigeria, t ....
Oxford Ceramics Gallery PRODUCING utilitarian ceramic vessels is one the most ancient and well-documented human activities. Archaeologists digging at any site anywhere in the world prioritise, above all else, locating pottery as a trusted source of information. The word ceramic derives from the Greek “keramos” meaning pottery, or a potter, and its Sanskrit root used to mean “burnt stuff.” Hence ceramic describes objects which have been formed with clay, hardened by firing and decorated or glazed. A kitchen dating back 20,000 years was unearthed in a cave in China in the early 2000s, with a wealth of pottery fragments and a similar find in Britain the Windmill Hill “cooking” pot dates back to the Neolithic period of 4,000 BC. Today’s meat-and-lentil stew recipes can be traced to that era. ....