{"product_id":"clay-form","title":"Clay: Form","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover  how history and contemporary practice come together in ceramics, as  artists reinterpret familiar forms through making, material  experimentation and modern contexts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross  cultures and centuries, clay has been shaped into vessels, bodies,  tools and surfaces. Today’s ceramic artists do not move away from these  forms; instead they return to them, stretch them, repeat them, distort  them and allow them to fail. Form becomes a record of touch, pressure, time and intention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by art historian and \u003ci\u003eCeramic Review \u003c\/i\u003econtributor Jessica Browne, \u003ci\u003eClay: Form\u003c\/i\u003e brings together an international  field of makers working across studio ceramics, functional ware,  sculptural practice and relief. Historic works sit alongside  contemporary pieces, showing new forms in active dialogue with earlier  traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrganised  around key approaches, from the reimagined vessel and domestic object  to embodied sculpture, abstraction and architectural surface, the book  shows how form is shaped by use, scale, the human body and the  constraints of the material itself. Works by artists such as Bouke de Vries, Oliver Beer, Florian Gadsby and Fernando Casasempere demonstrate how clay responds to gesture, gravity, repetition and fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining critical insight with close attention to process,\u003ci\u003e Clay: Form\u003c\/i\u003e offers students, artists and collectors a way to see ceramic form as something being continually shaped by modern makers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507733340533,"sku":"9781789944136","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781789944136.jpg?v=1787042873","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/clay-form","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}