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The legacy of Funk Art today: The politics of clay in the work of artists of colour
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Funk You Too!
Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture
Funk You Too! is the first book to connect the historic Funk Art movement to contemporary ceramic practice through the exploration of the enduring role of irony, absurdity, and a tongue-in-cheek approach to image-making with clay. The founding generation of Funk artists used forms of humour such as irony and satire to deflate the power of the aesthetic hierarchy that dismissed ceramics as hobby art.
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Today, in the hands of a younger, more diverse cohort a similarly irreverent approach is used to address social injustice, and slapstick or gallows humour is a vehicle for the exploration of difficult subject matter or taboo issues surrounding race, gender and sexuality. The book also includes biographies; full-colour, captioned images; and a bibliography. For many of the younger artists featured, it is their New York City debut, and this is the first scholarly examination of their work in print.
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Contributions by A. Vizcarrondo-Laboy, G. Johnson
112 pages 86 colour illustrations22.9 × 30.5 cm, Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-4094-1
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New York
| Museum of Arts and Design
Keywords
ceramics, 21st century, contemporary art
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