Robert Turner Shaping Silence - A Life in Clay

by Miro, Marsha; Hepburn, Tony; Koplos, Janet

• ISBN13: 9784770029461
• ISBN10: 4770029462
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-06
• Publisher: Kodansha USA

Summary

This monograph, on one of America's most significant ceramic artists,resents a complete account of Turner's rise during the art pottery movementf the 1960s, through to his celebrated, radical sculptural work of today.

Author Biography

As an art critic at the Detroit Free Press for twenty-one years, Marsha Miro covered the fine arts, crafts, and architecture. She has written books on nationally known fiber artist Gerhardt Knodel and the architecture at Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and coauthored a monograph on Detroit painter/sculptor Gordon Newton. Currently an architectural historian at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Miro wrote two regional-Emmy-winning documentary films about new architecture in the landmark community. She is also a correspondent for Glass Magazine and has written for American Ceramics, American Craft, Art in American, Art News, and Casabella Ceramicist Tony Hepburn is presently the Head of Ceramics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Previously, he taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Hepburn has been a regular contributor to American Ceramics, Ceramics: Art and Perception, New Art Examiner, American Craft, and Ceramic Review. From 1967 to 1971, he wrote the influential "Letter from London" column for Craft Horizons. His work has been seen in over a hundred solo exhibitions worldwide, and in 1970 he was awarded the Gold Medal at the International Biennale of Ceramics, in Faenza, Italy

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Pilgrim in the Pot Shop	p. 11
Color Plates	p. 17
Robert Turner: A Considered Art	p. 57
A Formal Art Education	p. 62
A Personal Quest in a World at War	p. 65
Finding Ceramics	p. 67
A Studio Potter	p. 74
An Expanding Aesthetic Framework	p. 78
A Break from School and Studio	p. 87
A Journey to the Old World and a Return with New Eyes	p. 96
Past the Logjam into a Torrent of Mature Work	p. 100
Travel to Cape Cod and Nova Scotia for Beach and Shore	p. 104
The Geometric Bowls Evolve	p. 106
The Southwest and Native American Influence	p. 109
Alfred University	p. 112
The Akan and its Progeny	p. 113
The Art World after Alfred	p. 120
New Work of the 1980s and 1990s	p. 122
Continued Evolution	p. 128
Old Age	p. 130
Achieving Wholeness	p. 131
Turner in Context	p. 135
Nonbeing	p. 136
Alfred University and Black Mountain College	p. 136
"Joining In"	p. 138
Achieving "Rightness," Interpreting Scale	p. 140
Rising above Perception	p. 145
Notes	p. 148
Chronology	p. 150
Index	p. 156
Acknowledgments	p. 158
Photo Credits	p. 160
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