Magdalene Odundo : a dialogue with objects /

Magdalene Odundo : a dialogue with objects /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Toronto : Gardiner Museum ; Princeton ; Oxford : in association with Princeton University Press, [2024] ©2024
Description:	95 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Odundo, Magdalene -- Exhibitions. Odundo, Magdalene. Art pottery, British -- 21st century -- Exhibitions. Women potters -- England -- 21st century -- Exhibitions. Ceramic sculpture. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13532858

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Varying Form of Title:	Dialogue with objects
Other uniform titles:	Odundo, Magdalene, Miller, Sequoia, Container of (work): Odundo, Magdalene. Pottery. Selections.
Other authors / contributors:	George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, publisher, host institution.
ISBN:	9780691265308 0691265305
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.
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" --

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Susan Jefferies
Synthesis and Silence: Magdalene Odundo's Postcoloniality / Sequoia Miller
Magdalene Odundo's Return to "That Chance Dance with the Fire" / Barbara Thompson
Transhistorical Conversations: Magdalene Odundo and Global Contemporary Art / Elizabeth Harney
A Smooth Hybridity: Magdalene Odundo's Dancing Vessels / Nehal El-Hadi
Conversation: Magdalene Odundo and Sequoia Miller
Prints and Drawings / Sequoia Miller.