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A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes

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A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes

Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body of work she has produced in her more than sixty years in the studio is remarkable for its depth, personal voice, and consistent innovation. Many of her pieces defy category, invoking body and landscape, pottery and sculpture, male and female, hand and eye.

Equally compelling are Karnes's experiences in some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation: from the worker-owned cooperative housing of her childhood, to Brooklyn College under modernist Serge Chermayeff, to North Carolina's avant-garde Black Mountain College, to the Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, New York, which Karnes helped establish as an experiment in integrating art, life, family, and community.

This book, designed to accompany an exhibit of Karnes's works organized by Peter Held, curator of ceramics for the Arizona State University Art Museum's Ceramic Research Center, offers a comprehensive look at the life and work of Karnes. Edited by highly regarded studio potter Mark Shapiro, it combines essays by leading critics and scholars with color reproductions of more than sixty of her works, providing new perspectives for understanding the achievements of this extraordinary artist.

Country	USA
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	The University of North Carolina Press
EAN	9780807834275
Edition	1st New edition
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0807834270
Label	The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer	The University of North Carolina Press
MPN	82 colour & 39 b&w illustrations, notes,
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	192
PartNumber	82 colour & 39 b&w illustrations, notes,
PublicationDate	2010-09-17
Publisher	The University of North Carolina Press
Studio	The University of North Carolina Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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