Ken Price's "Happy's Curios" (1972--1978): A critical history

Hall, Damara L., 1977-

Scholars' Bank will be on a content freeze from 9/6 - 9/16 as we transition to a new & improved version. Minimal downtime expected on 9/16. Stay tuned for more updates!

Show simple item record

Full Item Record
Term	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Hall, Damara L., 1977-
dc.date.accessioned	2011-06-15T19:08:31Z
dc.date.available	2011-06-15T19:08:31Z
dc.date.issued	2011-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11272
dc.description	ix, 100 p. : ill. (some col.)	en_US
dc.description.abstract	In 1972 ceramist Ken Price (b. 1935) embarked on Happy's Curios , a six-year long project that he described as an homage to Mexican folk pottery. It ended with a 1978 exhibition of the same name held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The project and the related exhibition integrated and critically investigated three common classifications of cultural objects: fine art, folk art, and craft. This thesis argues that the Happy's Curios project deploys these categories in a manner that challenges and deconstructs how they are used. The thesis offers a critical history of the Happy's Curios project and its reception in order to interrogate how the project engages the taxonomy of fine art, folk art, and craft, as well as its relevance to a broader art historical context.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Committee in charge: Kate Mondloch, Chair; Sherwin Simmons, Member; Brian Gillis, Member	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Oregon	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Art History, M.A., 2011;
dc.subject	Ceramics	en_US
dc.subject	Craft	en_US
dc.subject	Folk art	en_US
dc.subject	Price, Kenneth, 1935- Happy's Curious	en_US
dc.subject	Fine arts	en_US
dc.subject	Art criticism	en_US
dc.subject	Art history	en_US
dc.subject	Happy's Curios
dc.title	Ken Price's "Happy's Curios" (1972--1978): A critical history	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US