Table of Contents

Foreword / Kwang-Wu Kim

Introduction and Acknowledgements / Peter Held

Baby Boom Daydreams: The Early Ceramics of Kurt Weiser / Peter Held

Abandoning Gentility: The Roots of Kurt Weiser's China Painting / Ulysses Grant Dietz

Porcelain Paradise: The China-Painted Ceramics of Kurt Weiser / Edward Lebow

Artist's Statement

Plates

Checklist of the Exhibition

Chronology

Biography and Selected Exhibition History

Selected Public and Corporate Collections

Selected Bibliography

Lenders to the Exhibition

Arizona State University Art Museum Staff

Contributors

Index

Promotional Information

First full-scale survey of one of America's most ingenious ceramic artists

About the Author

Peter Held is curator of ceramics at the Ceramics Research Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe. Other contributors include Ulysses Grant Dietz and Edward Lebow.