Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | Dialogue with objects
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Other uniform titles: | Odundo, Magdalene,
Miller, Sequoia,
Container of (work): Odundo, Magdalene. Pottery. Selections.
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Other authors / contributors: | George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, publisher, host institution.
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ISBN: | 9780691265308 0691265305
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Notes: | Catalogue of an exhibition held at the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art from October 19, 2023 to April 21, 2024. Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary: | "Magdalene Odundo (b. 1950) is a Kenyan-born British ceramicist whose extraordinary works have been widely celebrated for their beauty and universality. Her studies of classical forms across many global traditions -- from Greek and Chinese to Aztec and African -- are evident in her intimate, evocative shapes. Gardiner Museum Chief Curator Sequoia Miller sheds light on the colonial and material traditions that inform Odundo's ceramics, showing how the artist deftly blends cultural and ethnographic sources to give expression to the postcolonial experience. This beautifully illustrated book discusses Odundo's innovative method and puts her ceramic forms into conversation with global contemporary art. This close examination allows for a careful look at the artist's works on paper -- her prints and sketchbook drawings, published here in depth for the first time -- demonstrating how they are a fundamental aspect of her creative practice. The book also features an in-depth Q&A with Odundo, in which she shares rare insights into her sense of self as an artist" --
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