Author: Louana Lackey
This new biography, written by Louana Lackey, is a history and celebration of Autio’s life, work, career, and techniques. Rudy Autio is considered one of the most important and influential ceramic artists working in the United States in the last fifty years. With works in the permanent collections of museums around the world, he has left an indelible mark on the world with his art.
In addition to the physical displays of Autio’s art, his influence can be found in many other areas. In 1951, he co-founded the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana with fellow artist and friend, Peter Voulkos. In 1957, Autio founded the Ceramics Department at the University of Montana in Missoula and began a nearly 30-year long teaching career at the school. In addition to his teaching, he has given lectures and conducted more than 100 workshops in the United States and other countries. This exciting new book, the first to be written on Autio, is a history and celebration of his life and work, and is supported by a stunning gallery of more than 150 color images.
Rudy Autio is considered one of the most important and influential ceramic artists working in the United States in the last fifty years. With works in the permanent collections of museums around the world including the American Craft Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Applied Arts Museum in Helsinki, the National Museum in Stockholm, and the Aichi and Shigaraki ceramic museums in Japan, Rudy Autio has left an indelible mark on the world with his art.
In addition to the physical displays of Autio’s art, his influence can be found in many other areas. In 1951, he co-founded the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana with fellow artist and friend, Peter Voulkos. In 1957, Autio founded the Ceramics Department at the University of Montana in Missoula and began a nearly 30-year long teaching career at the school. In addition to his teaching, he has given lectures and conducted more than 100 workshops in the United States and other countries.
This exciting new book, the first to be written on Autio. is a history and celebration of his life and work, and is supported by a stunning gallery of more than 150 color images. By documenting Rudy Autio’s life and work, this book explores the role ceramic artists play in contemporary American culture, how one becomes a ceramic artist, how ceramic artists make their work, how technology has changed their medium, and most importantly, why these artists do this work at all.
This clearly written, magnificently illustrated volume is both a history and celebration of Autio's life, career, the historical development of his artwork and its impact on contemporary ceramics, and his innovative artistic techniques. The color fidelity of the images is superb.
SAS Bulletin 25(2):14, Summer 2002
Autio is one of the most influential American ceramic artists of the past 50 years. This is the first book on his life and work and that alone makes it important.
CHOICE Magazine November 2002
A superb case study of three-dimensional works of modern art and the man who created them, Rudy Autio is a welcome and recommended addition to professional and academic art history collections in general, and ceramic art references in particular.
Midwest Book Review Library Bookwatch, May 2002
This publication on the life and art of Rudy Autio traces the odyssey of this contemporary ceramic master across his creative as well as personal history, giving the reader a well-rounded profile of the artist and the man. Louana Lackey's profile of Rudy Autio is as complete as we could hope to find; it is enjoyable reading, functions as a resource, and is visually stimulating to boot.
Potters Guild of British Columbia Newsletter May 2002
- Becoming an Artist
- At the Archie Bray
- Teaching and Making Art in Missoula
- An Artist Abroad
- In the Studio
- More Time for Art
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