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100 1 $aFailing, Patricia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83071305
245 10 $aHoward Kottler :$bface to face /$cby Patricia Failing.
260 $aSeattle :$bUniversity of Washington Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9410
300 $axiii, 133 pages :$billustrations ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
505 0 $aForeword / Judith Schwartz -- 1. Early Years in Ohio -- 2. Seattle and the 1960s -- 3. Vessels and Sculpture of the 1970s -- 4. The Last Decade.
520 $aHoward Kottler (1930-1989) was one of the West Coast ceramists who helped to redefine the entire field of contemporary American ceramic art. Patricia Failing's comprehensive and richly illustrated study is the first survey and summation of his work and is based on a series of interviews Kottler initiated after learning of his terminal illness.
520 8 $aThe artist's remarks - informed and wittily unpretentious - provide a vivid subtext to Failing's own thoughtful and compelling observations linking Kottler's innovative work with other developments in American visual arts.
520 8 $aThe book chronicles the evolution of an artist, thoroughly grounded in the traditional crafts and ceramics technology in the 1950s, who then established a rapport between his work and new directions in mainstream painting and sculpture. By the 1980s Kottler had become a conceptual artist who approached his materials as vehicles for art-historical commentary and physical eroticism, and as metaphors for probing the unbridgeable gap between the Self and the Other.
520 8 $aIn assessing Kottler's position and influence, Failing discusses his long teaching career and his role as exuberant gadfly to the ceramics establishment, but the focus of her analysis is on the intellectual range and sophistication of his artistic accomplishment. She establishes the major influences on Kottler, including his earliest teachers at Ohio State University and Cranbrook, significant art movements, travel, and his enduring interaction with his students at the University of Washington.
520 8 $aHer book affords a masterful review of Kottler's complex development as an artist and, in so doing, provides an index of the profound transitions undergone by the field of American ceramics since the late 1950s.
600 10 $aKottler, Howard,$d1930-1989$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aCeramic sculpture$zPacific Coast (U.S.)$y20th century.
700 1 $aKottler, Howard,$d1930-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94001391
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