Table of Contents: 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.

Table of Contents:

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.