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Ceramics Galleries, V&A
Ceramics Galleries, V&A
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Ceramics are basically the Liberal Democrats of the fine and decorative arts – often oddly shaped, eccentric, with a yearning to be useful – but with the V&A’s new Ceramics Galleries, the impossible seems achievable. They might actually win you over, rendering mute the brash bully boys of contemporary art and the vulgar spin of Postmodern design.
Ceramics are basically the Liberal Democrats of the fine and decorative arts – often oddly shaped, eccentric, with a yearning to be useful – but with the V&A’s new Ceramics Galleries, the impossible seems achievable. They might actually win you over, rendering mute the brash bully boys of contemporary art and the vulgar spin of Postmodern design.
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