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| Maker(s): | Scott, Paul | | Culture: | British; English (1953- )
| | Title: | Scott's Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Hudson River, Indian Point No. 4
| | Date Made: | ca. 1820; 2015
| | Type: | Sculpture
| | Materials: | Refined earthenware with cobalt blue shell-edge and lead glaze (pearlware); transfer print
| | Place Made: | Europe; United Kingdom; Great Britain; England; Staffordshire and North America; United States; Massachusetts; Cummington
| | Measurements: | Overall: 11 3/4 in x 15 1/4 in x 1 in; 29.8 cm x 38.7 cm x 2.5 cm
| | Accession Number: | MH 2015.12.1
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with the Elizabeth Peirce Allyn (Class of 1951) Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Label Text:
Paul Scott repurposes antique ceramics to comment on contemporary issues. By subtly changing traditional designs, Scott subverts the vessel’s original context, transforming a domestic object into a political one. This transfer-printed panoramic view was created using a collage of a modern photograph of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant and landscape designs from traditional American tablewares. At first glance the scene recalls the romantic landscapes of 19th-century Hudson River School painters, but the power plant brings us into the present day and presents a powerful contrast with the otherwise pastoral view. Scott created the work in Cummington, MA using a platter originally produced for the American market in Staffordshire, England.
-Aaron Miller, Associate Curator of Visual and Material Culture, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Sept. 2016)
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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