The Vase Project: Made in China - Landscape in Blue

Exhibition catalogue for The Vase Project: Made in China - Landscape in Blue

Barbara Diduk, ceramic artist, and Charles A. Dana, Professor of Art at Dickinson College, collaborated with Zhao Yu from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute on The Vase Project.

The conceptual installation comprises 101 porcelain vases painted by qing hua (blue and white) artisan and artist painters in Jingdezhen, China, where ceramics have been produced for more than 1800 years. The installation considers a transitory moment in pre- and post-industrial production practice where thousands of objects produced in factories throughout Jingdezhen are still created and painted by hand. The region’s porcelain industry has undergone rapid changes in the 20th century as it went from state control to a global market economy.

This profusely illustrated catalogue includes an introduction by Barbara Diduk, foreword by Ronald Kuchta, essays by art historians Ingrid Furniss and Ellen Huang, and filmmaker and anthropologist Maris Boyd Gillette.

Paperback, 68 pages
ISBN 978-0-9660322-8-4
© 2011