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Water And Woodfiring, Richard Bresnahan
Water And Woodfiring, Richard Bresnahan
Asian Studies Faculty Publications
Part of a special section on the 1999 International Woodfire Conference. The technique of putting water into a high-temperature woodfired kiln is discussed. This 800-year-old technique is used to oxidize the environment, clear carbon, and quickly cool the pottery. It produces unique, beautiful textures and colors, particularly a rich earth-tone palette that cannot be paralleled by chemical glazes or other firing techniques. This technique was used in a Teppo-gama (gun kiln) based on designs from 12th-century Korean tunnel kilns, built on the island of Tanegashima, Japan, in 1969. The writer discusses the work of a number of artists who use …
A Visual Odyssey: The Art Of Carl Sublett (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Norman Magden, Donald Kurka, Eric Sublett
A Visual Odyssey: The Art Of Carl Sublett (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Norman Magden, Donald Kurka, Eric Sublett
Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
Carl Sublett (1919 - 2008) was a faculty member in the painting department at the University of Tennessee School of Art. Beginning his teaching career in the 1950s, he retired in 1982. THis catalogue documents a 30 year retrospective of his work, exhibited by the Ewing Gallery in 2000.
Folk Art Treasures From Guangxi, Kentucky Folk Arts Center, Guangxi Provincial Museum
Folk Art Treasures From Guangxi, Kentucky Folk Arts Center, Guangxi Provincial Museum
Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs
2000 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of folk art from the Guangxi Province of China.
Review Of 1900: Art At The Crossroads, Antoni Pizà
Review Of 1900: Art At The Crossroads, Antoni Pizà
Publications and Research
There is probably little doubt that the fissure between "high" and "low" culture is more conspicuous nowadays than it ever was. Clement Greenberg, that dashing arbiter of contemporary art, had already sensed it in 1939 when he wrote the seminal essay quoted above, as Adorno also perceived it decades before him. Their foreboding premonitions, however, could not hinder the relentless success of popular culture and the retreat of so-called high art into the safe harbors of the university campus, the museum, and the private sphere.