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| Cover type : | Softcover |
| Dimensions : | 105 x 165 mm |
| Pages : | 64 |
| Pictures : | 22 colors |
| Price : | CHF18 / €10 / £7 / $15 |
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| ISBN : | 978-3-03764-163-7 |
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| Publication : | January 2011 |
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| ISBN : | 978-3-03764-277-1 |
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| Parution : | January 2011 |
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The art of ceramics
Whether it is a question of Sgrafo vases, of Raymond Loewy’s “Form 2000” for Rosenthal (1954), or of the improbable “Fat Lava”glacis of the 1970s, postwar German ceramics attest to a surprising stylistic inventiveness and diversity.
Through these creations, both well-known and anonymous designers knew how to capture the impulses of a society in the middle of reconstruction and desirous of looking to the future. Mixing references to Op art, the geometry of a Verner Panton, or the vegetal style of the hippie wave, these objects follow a path of exaggerated shape unique in the history of forms.
In this sense they simultaneously incarnate the inevitable bombacity that menaces design, and its aspirations to autonomy as a quasi-artistic practice. It is this crossing of intentions and this body of supposedly ordinary objects that this publication explores, with a text by the specialist Horst Markus, and an interview with the designer Ronan Bouroullec.
Published with the support of Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich; CEC, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva; and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims.
French edition (ISBN 978-3-03764-163-7) only available by les presses du réel. Limited stock.
