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Not long ago, pottery was a lost art in Chihuahua, Mexico. But in the 1970s, near the ruins of Casas Grandes, an art revolution was born. Inspired by ancient pottery fragments from a tradition that had disappeared before the arrival of the first Europeans, a self-taught woodcutter-turned-artist reinvented an entire ceramic technology. Today Casas Grandes pottery, made by hand from local clays and mineral colors by a handful of artists, claims high prices and sets the standard for contemporary pottery. Photographer Sandra Smith traveled to Mata OrtĂz to photograph the potters and to record their reflections on their work. Her portraits document their techniques—collecting and preparing the clay, forming by hand, sanding, and painting. They also capture intimate moments between artists and their art. For anyone who has ever admired Casas Grandes pottery, Portraits of Clay is a beautiful introduction to the potters and their work.
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Laura Pesci
reviewed Portraits of Clay: Potters of Mata Ortiz on February 09, 2017
Portraits of Clay: Potters of Mata Ortiz
I'm not really very interested in performance art as such, which this book spends a good deal of time discussing--I am interested in identity performance, but I don't think I got much more on that subject from this book than I already had from Judith Butler and Homi Bhabha. I accept that the task is nearly impossible, but I'm not sure how well this critical introduction actually covered performance as such. I think it did a better job providing an intro than I got out of it.
One of the things I found particularly problematic about Carlson's style is that ideas flow into one another, so he will introduce a certain thought and midway through the paragraph that is developing that thought he'll begin working to a new thought. I suppose this reflects the fluidity and movement of much performance, but I found it difficult to follow the movement of some of Carlson's logic because it seems like he rarely wraps up a thought in what I would call a comprehensive manner.
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