1. CH 11 FLIRTING W/
FUNCTION
• Where is the dividing line between a
“craft” and “fine art”?
• Can a utilitarian, hand-made or machine
made, object be considered Fine Art?
• Which object would be more
expensive?
• Which might be shown in a museum?

2. CLAY
CERAMICS

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Peter Voulkos. Untitled Plate CR952. 1989.
20-1/2" × 4-1/2".

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Adrian Saxe. Les Rois du Monde Futur (Rulers of the Future World). 2004.
26-1/4" × 13-1/4" × 10".
WHAT ARE THE LITTLE THINGS
ON TOP?
WHEEL THROWN POTTERY

5. CLAY IS FIRED IN A KILN
to make it durable.
(Otherwise if it gets wet, it goes back to being mud/earth)

6. EARLY AMERICAN INDIAN KILN
TYPICAL MODERN PRODUCTION KILN

7. LAYING CERAMIC
FLOOR TILES

8. GLASS

9. BELLAGIO
HOTEL,
LAS VEGAS
Chilhuly’s glass

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Chihuly glass in a boat

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Dale Chihuly. Mauve Seaform Set with Black Lip Wraps from the "Seaforms"
Series. 1985.

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Adam Silverman Boolean Valley. 2009.
Maximum height 24".

13. FIBERBACK-STRAP WEAVING IN MESOAMERICA

14. GUATEMALA WOVEN CLOTHING

15. WEAVING IN
AFRICA
Kente cloth is a type of silk and cotton fabric
made of interwoven cloth strips and is native to
the people of Ghana.

16. PERSIAN RUG WEAVING

17. ARDABIL CARPET
as installed in the
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Eng.
34’ X 17’6”, wool on silk warps & wefts

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Nick Cave. Soundsuit. 2009.
Height 7'.

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Jessie Pettway. Bars and String-Piece Columns. 1950s.
95" × 76".
An “arty” take off
of the traditional quilt.

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Faith Ringgold. Tar Beach. 1988.
74" × 69".

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Faith Ringgold. With detail of The Purple Quilt. 1986.

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Polly Apfelbaum. Blossom. 2000.
Diameter 18'.

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Miriam Schapiro. Personal Appearance #3. 1973.
60" × 50".
Tex
t
The medium is acrylic paint & fabric on canvas.
If it was quilted, soft material would it be ART?
In the 1970s
women artists were
purposely using
“feminine” media.

24. METAL

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Cal Lane. Untitled (Map 3). 2007.
78-1/2" × 71-3/4".
PLASMA CUT STEEL

26. Cal Lane, sculptor

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d’Arenberg Basin. 1247–1249.
22.5 × 50.0 cm.

28. WOOD

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Henry Gilpin. Curiously Red. 2006.
36" × 74" × 16", elm, pigment, magnets

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Maya Lin. Terra Table. 2009, red maple

31. • is it art?