General Introduction / Livingstone and Petrie

Pen and Kiln: a brief overview of modern ceramics and critical writing / Garth Clark

Section One: Ceramics: Materiality and Metaphor. Section Introduction / Livingstone and Petrie

Why are ceramics important? Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Clay as elemental wholeness / Kenneth R. Beittel

The existential base / Philip Rawson

Appreciating ceramics or so much more than just an egg cup or a milk jug / Ian Wilson

Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon) / Silvia Forni

Ceramics and art criticism / Janet Koplos

Death and Clay: Cultural and personal Interpretations in ceramics / Christopher Garcia and Tomaru Haruna

Ceramics and metaphor. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Heart like a wheel: What is Hollywood telling us about working with clay? / Sarah Archer

Analogy and metaphor in ceramic art / Philip Rawson

Metaphors, Myths and Making Pots / Laurel Birch Aguilar

Sculptural Vessels across the great divide: Tony Cragg's Laibe and the metaphors of clay / Imogen Racz

Section Two: Ceramics in Context. Section Introduction / Livingstone and Petrie

Historical Precedents. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

The function of decoration: Wedgwood / Herbert Read

The Arts and Crafts Movement: GB, USA, Germany and Austria, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Hungary and Italy / Emmanuel Cooper

A Matter of Tradition: A Debate Between Maguerite Wildenhain and Bernard Leach / Brent Johnson

Contemporary design of the 1950s: Rie and Coper in context / Lesley Jackson

Studio Ceramics. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Studio Pottery / Tanya Harrod

Towards a standard / Bernard Leach

Towards a Double Standard? / Edmund De Waal

Re/inventing the wheel: the origins of studio pottery / Julian Stair

The Archie Bray Foundation: A Legacy Reframed / Patricia Failing

Studio Ceramics: The end of the story? / Jeffrey Jones

Sculptural Ceramics. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

A Rough Equivalent: Sculpture and Pottery in the post war period / Jeffrey Jones

California (Funk) / Scott A. Shields

Cooled Matter: Ceramic Sculpture in the expanded field / Mitchell Merback

The New Ceramic Presence / Rose Slivka

Metamorphosis: the culture of ceramics / Martina Margetts

Antony Gormley in conversation with James Putnam / James Putnam

Ceramics and Installation. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Ceramics and Installation / Emma Shaw

Ceramic Installation Towards a self/definition / Ruth Chambers

Multiplicity, Ambivalence and ceramic installation art / Glenn R. Brown

Theoretical Perspectives. Introductory Summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Reconsidering 'The Pissoir Problem' / Bruce Metcalf

The Modern Pot / Glenn Adamson

Social Complexity and the historiography of ceramic / Paul Greenhalgh

Speak for yourself / Edmund De Waal

Object Theory / Paul Mathieu

Between a toilet and a hard place / Garth Clark

Conceptual and post studio practice. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Manufacturing Validity: the ceramic work in the age of conceptual production / Lizzie Zucker Saltz

On Dirt / Ingrid Schaffner

Contemporary Clay / Clare Twomey

Elastic/Expanding; Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics / Jo Dahn

Extending Vocabularies: Distorting the ceramic familiar

clay and the performative 'other' /

Andrew Livingstone

...And into the Fire: post studio ceramics in Britain / Glenn Adamson

Section Three: Key Themes. Section Introduction / Livingstone and Petrie

Gender, Sexuality and Ceramics. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Gender, Identity and studio ceramics / Moira Vincentelli

Queering the Museum / Matt Smith

The Personal Political Pots of Grayson Perry / Louisa Buck & Marjan Boot

Identity and Ceramics. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Body language: ceramics to challenge the white world / Ruth Park

Rubber and Clay: South African material 'aftermodern' / Elisabeth Perrill

Plunder Me Baby

Kukuli Velarde and the ceramics of Taiwan's first nations: Virtual Ventriloquism as articulated in the 2014 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale /

Wendy Gers

Image. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Ceramics and painting: an expanded field of enquiry / Veronika Horlik

Paul Scott's Confected landscapes and Contemporary Vignettes / Amy Gogarty

The body. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Embracing Sculptural Ceramics: a lived experience of touch in art / Bonnie Kemske

Vicious Figurines: Penny Byrne's Ceramic Advocacy / Inga Walton

The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary Ceramics / Peter Selz

Ceramics in education. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

The influence of educational institutions on contemporary ceramics / Andrea Gill

The Digital Future: Reimagining Ceramic Education in the 21st Century / Holly Hanessian

Ceramics, industry and new technologies. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Transitions: A brief history of Modern Ceramics / Marek Cecula

National Identity and the problem of style in the post-war British ceramics Industry / Graham McLaren

Continuity or Collapse: Ceramics in a post-industrial era / Jorunn Veiteberg

The UK marketing strategy in response to globalization c1990-2010 / Neil Ewins

Meta-making and me / Ingrid Murphy

Museum, site and display. Introductory summary / Livingstone and Petrie

Museums and the interstices of domestic life: Re-articulating domestic space in contemporary ceramics practice / Laura Gray

The museum as medium specific muse / Ezra Shales

Environment, art, ceramics, and site specificity / Brad Evan Taylor

When forms become attitude

A consideration of the adoption by an artist of ceramic display as narrative device and symbolic landscape /

Mike Tooby

Why Clay? / James Beighton and Emily Hesse

Civic ceramics: shifting the centre of meaning / Natasha Mayo and Melania Warwick

Ceramics as an archaeology of the contemporary past / Christopher McHugh

Re-defining ceramics through exhibitionary practice / Laura Breen.