Postmodern Ceramics

In the marriage between postmodernism and ceramics, ceramics has “come alive as never before”, resulting in more “diversity, adventure, literacy and ambition”. Styles are “brightly patterned, unconcerned about reverence for authorship and originality, ready to quote styles from the medium’s long past”, writes Garth Clark in his introductory essay to this new survey of postmodern ceramics.

Garth Clark and the author of Postmodern Ceramics, Mark Del Vecchio, are co‐founders and directors of the Garth Clark Gallery in New York, the first gallery to devote itself to exhibiting a new generation of postmodern ceramic artists. Through nearly 400 exhibitions Mark...