Edited by Michael Juul Holm, Helle Crenzien, Kirsten Degel. Foreword by Poul Erik Třjner. Text by Marilyn McCully, Harald Theil, Salvador Haro González, Lynda Morris.
Picasso's ceramics express the restless, fluid ease of his late years
In 1946, Pablo Picasso visited an exhibition of ceramics in Vallauris, an area in southeastern France known for its many potteries. He would move to the region soon after, establishing a steady relationship with the Madoura ceramics workshop in 1948.
It was a watershed moment for Picasso, who throughout his long life was always on the lookout for new artistic challenges in all conceivable materials. Picasso's experiments with various ceramic materials, oxides and glazes would produce a huge body of work: some 4,000 ceramic objects bearing the motifs of animals, fauns and women evoked through Picasso's whimsical, elegant handling of shape and line. This major body of work in ceramics forms a lesser-known but highly original part of the oeuvre of an artist who was constantly reinventing himself and his forms.
This book presents more than 150 of Picasso's most important ceramic works reproduced in beautiful four-color printing, as well as new texts about the artist's pieces in this medium. The book also contains a detailed glossary of ceramic terms and a review of the forms most commonly used by Picasso. The only book in print on this beautiful and highly imaginative part of Picasso's oeuvre, Picasso: Ceramics is an essential volume.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Picasso: Ceramics.'
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Los Angeles Times
R. Daniel Foster
Picasso employed his trademark bravado and lavish imagination to bust rules while steeping himself in fired clay’s ancient traditions.
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Picasso really could do it all. "Two-handed Vase with Faun's Head and an Owl," (1961) is one of approximately 4,000 ceramic works produced by the artist between 1947, when he first tried his hand, and 1964. More than 150 of Picasso's most important works in clay are collected in Picasso: Ceramics, the Louisiana Museum's concise and delightful a new release. Platters and bowls, vases and bottles, pitchers, jugs, cooking vessels, figures, still-lifes and floor tiles all make appearances, decorated with human, animal and abstract forms. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 128 pgs / 202 color / 20 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $47.5 GBP £28.00 ISBN: 9788793659025 PUBLISHER: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art AVAILABLE: 8/28/2018 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: WORLD Except France
Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Edited by Michael Juul Holm, Helle Crenzien, Kirsten Degel. Foreword by Poul Erik Třjner. Text by Marilyn McCully, Harald Theil, Salvador Haro González, Lynda Morris.
Picasso's ceramics express the restless, fluid ease of his late years
In 1946, Pablo Picasso visited an exhibition of ceramics in Vallauris, an area in southeastern France known for its many potteries. He would move to the region soon after, establishing a steady relationship with the Madoura ceramics workshop in 1948.
It was a watershed moment for Picasso, who throughout his long life was always on the lookout for new artistic challenges in all conceivable materials. Picasso's experiments with various ceramic materials, oxides and glazes would produce a huge body of work: some 4,000 ceramic objects bearing the motifs of animals, fauns and women evoked through Picasso's whimsical, elegant handling of shape and line. This major body of work in ceramics forms a lesser-known but highly original part of the oeuvre of an artist who was constantly reinventing himself and his forms.
This book presents more than 150 of Picasso's most important ceramic works reproduced in beautiful four-color printing, as well as new texts about the artist's pieces in this medium. The book also contains a detailed glossary of ceramic terms and a review of the forms most commonly used by Picasso. The only book in print on this beautiful and highly imaginative part of Picasso's oeuvre, Picasso: Ceramics is an essential volume.
