Nicole Cherubini: Nicole Cherubini Is an Artist Based in New York, Where Her Solo Exhibitions at D'Amelio Terras and Smith-Stewart Opened Last Month. Her Work, Paired with Sculptures by Taylor Davis, Will Be on View at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Museum 52 in New York Next Year

1 POTTERY, POLITICS, ART: GEORGE OHR AND THE BROTHERS KIRKPATRICK, RICHARD D. MOHR (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS, 2003) Scholar Richard D. Mohr delves into the lives of George E. Ohr and the brothers Cornwall and Wallace Kirkpatrick, showing how their amazing work is foundational to contemporary American art. The brothers were activists: One held the position of mayor; they had their own newspaper in Anna, Illinois; and their "radical Republican" wares had subversively anarchic implications that went over conservative Democrats' heads. (Reverse the party names, and it is a lot like our condition today.) George E. Ohr was a revolutionary. His work contrasted ceramics (precious objects covered in glaze) with clay (the abject material base) and teased out the conceptual implications of both. Along with awe-inspiring misshapen vessels, he produced photographs, text pieces, and performances--all of which seem freakishly prescient today. As Mohr declares: "The Ohrian truth is out, clay is shit, shit is clay. Glaze it, gussy it up with …

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Publication information: Article title: Nicole Cherubini: Nicole Cherubini Is an Artist Based in New York, Where Her Solo Exhibitions at D'Amelio Terras and Smith-Stewart Opened Last Month. Her Work, Paired with Sculptures by Taylor Davis, Will Be on View at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Museum 52 in New York Next Year. Contributors: Not available. Magazine title: Artforum International. Volume: 47. Issue: 3 Publication date: November 2008. Page number: 181+. © 1999 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale Group.

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