The Rise Of Modern Ceramic Art

The ceramic art revolution happened in the1950’s in Japanese and America, which leaded by the ceramic community of the "Crawling on Mud" and the "Otis Clay", was epoch-making events in the world history of ceramic arts. They pushed ceramic art forward to modernity, propelled ceramic into an active type of modern art, marked the risen of modern ceramic art.The thesis first summarized the general situation of the ceramic revolution, including the significant events, important persons, works and the Cultural contexts. The thesis focuses on discussing about three major breakthroughs of aesthetic concepts, which are the re-interpretation of the nature of ceramic, the modern change of ceramic’s abstractness and the strengthen of art expression in ceramic, which were the outcome of cultural exchanges of the Eastern and Western worlds, of social modernization and of the introspection and self-conscious to ceramic itself. Otherwise, the thesis probed into connotations of the aesthetic modernity of the revolution, pointed out that it was awaken of autorhythmicity, reflexivitat and criticalness that impelled Japanese and American ceramist to launch ceramic revolutions. The thesis also discussed the problems existed and the enlightenments which the revolutions could bring to contemporary world ceramic arts and Chinese ceramic arts.The thesis concluded that it was just because the breakthrough of aesthetic conceptions and the awaken of ceramic aesthetic modernity that made it’s possible to establish new types of ceramic art which profoundly changed the ceramic art world and advanced ceramic into the spring tide of modern art.