The editors of The Ceramics Reader, Andrew Livingstone and Kevin Petrie, are practising artists and academics based at the University of Sunderland, UK; between them they have authored numerous books and articles in the fields of ceramics and glass. In their editorial introduction to this new anthology, they explain that their selection of texts has been guided by the concerns of their students. They identify its focus as “art ceramics,” as opposed to ceramics of industrial design or application, and in particular the creative practices of Europe, the USA, and Australia. The primary concern is ceramics discourse rather than technical matters. In his introductory overview, Garth Clark recalls that, back in 1978 when compiling the anthology Ceramic Art: Comment and Review 1882–1977, he had found little serious writing on key US movements of the previous two decades. The fact, therefore, that most of texts included in The Ceramics Reader come from the last twenty years may be taken to demonstrate that there has been a significant development in critical writing in the field. It is certainly a substantial volume, comprising sixtyseven texts organized within three sections, each divided into subsections preceded by an editors’ introduction. It encompasses different kinds of texts and voices: extracts from books, articles from specialist magazines and academic journals, conference papers and the occasional newly commissioned chapter; these are variously historically orientated, interpretative, scholarly, and polemical, with some more provisional and informal. Section One, covering issues of “Ceramics—Materiality and Metaphor,” aims to establish the significance of clay and ceramic

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The Ceramics Reader 的编辑 Andrew Livingstone 和 Kevin Petrie 是英国桑德兰大学的执业艺术家和学者；他们在陶瓷和玻璃领域撰写了大量书籍和文章。在他们对这本新选集的社论介绍中，他们解释说，他们选择的文本是以学生所关心的问题为指导的。他们将其重点确定为“艺术陶瓷”，而不是工业设计或应用的陶瓷，尤其是欧洲、美国和澳大利亚的创意实践。主要关注的是陶瓷话语而不是技术问题。在他的介绍性概述中，加斯克拉克回忆说，早在 1978 年，在编纂《陶瓷艺术：评论和评论 1882-1977》选集时，他几乎没有找到关于过去二十年美国主要运动的严肃著作。因此，The Ceramics Reader 中包含的大部分文本都来自过去二十年的事实可以证明该领域的批判性写作取得了重大进展。这当然是一本很厚的书，包括组织在三个部分中的六十七篇文章，每个部分都分为几个小节，前面有一个编辑的介绍。它包含不同类型的文本和声音：书籍摘录、专业杂志和学术期刊的文章、会议论文和偶尔新委托的章节；这些是不同的历史导向、解释性、学术性和论战性的，还有一些更临时和非正式的。第一节，涵盖“陶瓷——材料与隐喻”的问题，