Brickworks

Name: Brickworks
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ISBN: 9780812237825

ISBN-10: 081223782X

ISBN-13: 9780812237825

Edition: 2004

Authors: Gwen Heeney

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For more than 10,000 years, people have been shaping clay into brick for use in creating permanent shelter. With increased skill, they used brick to form arches and gateways in complex buildings of different sizes and shapes. Eventually bricks were used to decorate walls and floors, and what had once been a strictly utilitarian item began to take on an aesthetic role. Current attention to architectural ceramics, the interest in installations, and the advance of public art have transformed brick into an increasingly popular medium. Artists now collaborate with brick factories to produce a wide range of work utilizing the unique properties of brick. Some of them carve the clay while it is…

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 12/2/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.508
Language: English



Introduction



Historical, contextual and social



Brick clays



Firing



Working with unfired 'green' brick



Site-specific artworks using fired, reclaimed and salvaged bricks



Bas-relief murals and surface decoration



Contemporary multimedia artists and architects using brick



Technological intervention



Artists, education and the brick industry



Specialist art centres, workshops and symposia



Commissions, artist residencies, sponsorship and costing


Suppliers and Services


Bibliography


Glossary


Index