George Ohr Art Pottery History Examples / Scarce Illustrated Exhibition Booklet

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GEORGE E. OHR: THE MAD BILOXI POTTER
by Ron Dale is a companion volume for an exhibition of 32 of his works, organized at the University of Mississippi, which circulated throughout the Southern U.S. in 1983.
”This booklet is a 1986 reprint from JO-D Books, Stamford, CT.  Ohr, whose life spanned 1857-1918, created an enormous number of ceramic pieces, many of which defied the functionalist conventions of centuries of potters.  Eventually, he stored about 8,000 pieces in an attic of the family’s junkyard warehouses, where they were rediscovered in 1972.  He was, no doubt, prophetic in conceiving his wares and also in anticipating a later generation that would view his art as worthy in spite of, or because of, his Modernist principle, “I don’t do function.”  He was not altogether unrecognized in his own lifetime, and was, like many of his contemporaries—Picasso comes to mind—a lover of practical jokes, of boisterous ego and self-advertisement--and the satiric mode.  An autobiographical article is reprinted here, taken from a December, 1901 edition of “Crockery and Glass Journal.”  There is also an appreciative essay on Ohr’s aesthetic by Garth Clark.
7” x 9” softback in very good condition.  24 pages.
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