Hans Coper

Peter Voulkos, A Brief History

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Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) was a ceramist most known for his abstract expressionist sculptures. He received his BS from the Montana State College, Bozeman and received his MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts).

He taught at the Los Angeles County Art Institute (later renamed the Otis College of Art and Design) and the University of California, Berkeley. His students include Paul Soldner, Kenneth Price, Henry Takemoto, Michael Frimkess, John Mason, and others. His work can be found in the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Arkansas Arts Center, Everson Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and others.

www.craftinamerica.org. SERVICE episode Peter Voulkos segment. PBS premiere: November 2, 2014.

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Pk Alison Britton on Hans Coper

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Pk Because when you look at it first you think it might be a cup sitting on a neck, and it's not. It goes all the way down. If it had been in various people's homes it would have had flowers in it probably, wouldn't it? I mean, Lucie would always have put flowers in his pots.

I like them more when he's playing more severely with the form, when there's more flattening or extension or something. But I own a little thistle, and some of the ones where there's an envelope that's been shut to an extreme with the points at the bottom; that's the spade one, isn't it? That may be my favourite form. But it's very, very evocative of the whole body of things.

The ceramics of Hans Coper

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Charlie Park and Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum, discuss the potter and artist Hans Coper. To mark the 100th anniversary of Hans Coper’s birth, the Ashmolean is devoting a display to an exhibition of Coper’s ceramics made across his career. The exhibition includes ceramics from the Museum’s own collection together with more than 30 loans from private collections.