Description: Color and fire

Main Author:	Lauria, Jo.
Other Authors:	Adkins, Gretchen., Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, Calif. : LACMA in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 2000.
Physical Description:	251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Subjects:	Smits, Howard. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions. Smits, Gwen Laurie. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions. Los Angeles County Museum of Art -- Exhibitions. Art pottery -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Art pottery -- Private collections -- California -- Los Angeles -- Exhibitions. Art pottery -- California -- Los Angeles -- Exhibitions.

Item Description:	Catalog of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and three other institutions between June 4, 2000 and Oct. 2, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index. Mapping the history of a collection: defining moments in ceramics at LACMA / Jo Lauria -- Ceramics in the West: the explosion of the 1950s / Susan Peterson -- Otis and Berkeley: crucibles of the American clay revolution / Garth Clark -- Figurative impulse in contemporary ceramics / Peter Selz -- Better living through tea: contemporary artists investigate the teapot and teacup / Rebecca Niederlander -- Gwen Laurie Smits: tribute to a collector / Gretchen Adkins. Mapping the history of a collection: defining moments in ceramics at LACMA /Jo Lauria --Ceramics in the West: the explosion of the 1950s /Susan Peterson --Otis and Berkeley: crucibles of the American clay revolution /Garth Clark --Figurative impulse in contemporary ceramics /Peter Selz --Better living through tea: contemporary artists investigate the teapot and teacup /Rebecca Niederlander --Gwen Laurie Smits: tribute to a collector /Gretchen Adkins.
Physical Description:	251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index.
ISBN:	0847822540