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(★)(Robert Turner is one of the most important ceramic artists in the United States today. Distinguishing himself in the art pottery movement of the sixties, Turner rose to prominence when he moved from functional pieces to sculptural forms and began to create a body of work notable for its dynamic yet serene forms. ／From the outset, Turner´s life and work had a strong spiritual base. His Quaker beliefs and early pacifist views led to his being stationed in work camps during World War II. After the war, he gained wide recognition when he set up the first ceramic studio at the renowned Black Mountain College in North Carolina, known for its leadership of the avant-garde art movement. Decades of distinctive, pioneering work culminated in top awards in the United States and Europe in the 1990s. ／In this first monograph on the artist´s long and fascinating career, Marsha Miro has taken a maverick approach with her incisive text, interspersing telling comments from Turner himself with her own explorations of the artist´s achievements. Much weight and thought is given to the creative process as revealed in her extensive interviews. A second essay by leading ceramicist Tony Hepburn provides a personal commentary on Turner´s art, while Janet Koplos, a senior editor at Art in America, contributes a reflective introduction. ／Beautifully illustrated with pivotal works spanning the artist´s distinguished career, ´Robert Turner --Shaping Silence´ not only relates the compelling story of a young artist´s journey toward formal mastery but furnishes essential documentation on one of the most intriguing periods of the American crafts movement. Artists, collectors, and students will find this volume inspirational, and invaluable on many levels. ◆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.) |
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