Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 279 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1338 g
Chicago's Atlan Ceramic Art Club, 1893-1923
Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 279 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1338 g
Reihe: Arts and Crafts Movement Series
ISBN: 978-1-956313-07-9
Verlag: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rit Press
Organized in 1893 by fifteen of Chicago's premier female china painters, the Atlan Ceramic Art Club acquired a national reputation and maintained its high standards for thirty years. The abstract style of overglaze decoration developed by Atlan Club members and applied with superb technical skill brought regional, national, and international recognition as they pioneered the study of appropriate designs for china and pioneered a new abstract style of conventionalized overglaze porcelain decoration in America. Their skillful application of historic ornament to modern porcelain shapes-radical and "modern" at the time-encouraged experimentation, while their insistence upon technical excellence demonstrated the value and rewards inherent in perfecting one's proficiency in painting and design. Although the club's utopian dream that conventional ornament would be adopted as a national style was never realized, its members succeeded in establishing its appropriateness on ceramic forms as a new art medium for the American Arts and Crafts movement.
Featuring biographies of 150 china painters as well as photographs of their impeccable work, Women, Enterprise, Craft: Chicago's Atlan Ceramic Art Club, 1893-1923 is the culmination of over fifty years of research. Sharon S. Darling deftly documents the history of the Atlan Ceramic Art Club, its influence on decorative ceramics in the United States during the first quarter of the twentieth century, and the stories behind its allfemale members.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Keramik, Porzellan, Glaskunst
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
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Introduction 1
Chapter One. A Few of the "Better Artists" 5
Chapter Two. "Ceramics Their Fad" 10
Chapter Three. The Second Exhibition 15
Chapter Four. The Art Institute of Chicago 18
Chapter Five. Only the Current Year21
Chapter Six. Adopting a New Style 25
Chapter Seven. Preparing for Paris 33
Chapter Eight. International Recognition 39
Chapter Nine. A Busy Exhibition Schedule 44
Chapter Ten. The First Decade 50
Chapter Eleven. Pottery and Art Crafts 53
Chapter Twelve. Renaissance58
Chapter Thirteen. "This Brand of Ecstasy" 66
Chapter Fourteen. Director for Life 69
Chapter Fifteen. Unfazed by World War 80
Chapter Sixteen. Nurturing New Members 92
Chapter Seventeen. The Beginning of the End 98
Chapter Eighteen. A Grand Finale 104
Appendix 1. Members of the Atlan Ceramic Art Club, 1893-1922 113
Appendix 2. 1918 Atlan Catalog 132
Notes 143
Select Bibliography 160
Acknowledgments 162
Illustration Credits 163
Index 164
Colophon 168
