Clay's tectonic shift, 1956-1968 : John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos / Mary Davis MacNaughton, editor ; with contributions by Michael Duncan ... [et al.]
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Ruth Chandler Williams Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, Jan. 21-Apr. 8, 2012.
"This book is published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation, on the occasion of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980"--T.p. verso.
AAPGRK gift of John and Colleen Kotelly.
Contents:
Preface : Culture, clay, and credibility / Peter Plagens -- Introduction : Clay's sculptural turn / Mary Davis MacNaughton -- Vanguard ceramics : John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos / Frank Lloyd -- Confluence : people, ideas, and art : southern California, 1945-1970 / Karen Tsujimoto -- How clay got cool : setting the stage for Peter Voulkos's radical shift / Michael Duncan -- Unexpected connections : clay sculpture in LA and the avant-garde / Mary Davis MacNaughton -- A burgeoning art scene with room for ceramics / Suzanne Muchnic -- Annotated bibliography : critical response to early work by Mason, Price, and Voulkos
