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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> My earliest and fondest memories were of working with cool muddy clay at home and within art class at school. Nearly all of my childhood experiences with art were immersed in clay and inseparable from the processes of learning and teaching that surrounded and informed making. Like many of my colleagues in the ceramic arts I fell in love with the richness responsiveness and variability of the clay medium. So too like my education colleagues. I was very interested in how others taught me and how I began to educate myself about art-making. As a university student I became fascinated with the histories of other ceramic artists in different times and places. I also began looking for women artists like myself and to puzzle over how the symbols and mythologies surrounding women ceramicists are prominent as “earth mothers” and pottery makers. yet individual names and biographies often were missing. If the artist can be seen as a sort of storyteller the research story I will tell here centers on the lives and works of a sample of remarkable women in contemporary ceramics. In this book. I examine gendered experiences and artistic identities of fifteen contemporary female ceramic artists. The foregrounding literature reviewed as the basis for this study included biographies of female ceramic artists in the United States texts of gender studies and art history. and a range of related resources within ceramic archaeology. This study employs an interpretive lens of ambivalence as gendered context. Within gender studies the concept of ambivalence characterizes the nuance contradiction tension and dualism associated with women’s works and women’s lives. This research then particularly analyzes ambivalences within contemporary artistic experiences of gender (e.g. being treated in a particular way as a woman artist) as well as artistic responses relating to gender via interviews with research subjects (eg. creating artwork in dialogue with gender issues). (LL)