SCORCHED EARTH: 100 YEARS OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN POTTERIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Scorched Earth: 100 Years Of Southern African Potteries Scorched Earth is the first comprehensive history of fine art pottery in southern Africa, with a focus on pioneer ceramic studios and workshops. This encyclopedic revisionist history of an often overlooked sector of the South African art and design world explores the work of 30 potteries that produced high-quality ceramic wares from 1900 to 1980. The book is the definitive history of southern African ceramics, giving voice to many artists whose work is little known in the wider art world. It contains over 300 photographs, a comprehensive list of studios, workshops and potters, makers marks, and a wide-ranging essay on the history of this art form in southern Africa.   About the author Wendy Gers is a former curator at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and now lectures at lEcole Suprieure dArt et de Design de Valenciennes, France. Gers curated the prestigious Taiwan Ceramics Biennale 2014. She is a research associate at the University of Johannesburg and an associate advisor at The Design Cradle, Cape Town. She has written museum catalogues and published articles in journals including Art South Africa, Ceramic Review, Image and Text, La revue de la cramique et du verre and African Arts. Author        Wendy Gers ISBN           978-1-4314-2126-8 Format       Hardback Pages          416p