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Glenn
Adamson will present
the Tenth Annual Dorothy Wilson Perkins Ceramic History
Lecture sponsored by the Schein-Joseph International Museum
of Ceramic Art at Alfred University.
His lecture, titled Making a Mess: Ceramic Sculpture
Now, will be presented on Thursday, November 20, 2008
at 4:30 pm in Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center on the
Alfred University campus. |
| About the Dorothy
Wilson Perkins Lecture Series |
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Tenth Annual Dorothy Wilson
Perkins Ceramic History Lecturer
Glenn Adamson
Thursday, November 20, 2008
4:30 pm, Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center
Alfred University Campus
Glenn Adamson is Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies
at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he leads a graduate program
in the History of Design. His research interests include 20th century
craft and design, furniture and ceramics in England and America in
the 17th and 18th centuries, and decorative arts theory. Dr. Adamson
is the co-editor of the triannual Journal of Modern Craft,
and in 2007 published a full length study entitled Thinking Through
Craft (Berg Publishers/V&A Publications). His other publications
include Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped
Your World (MIT Press). Presently he is working on an exhibition
about Postmodernism, to be held at the V&A in 2011. |