"Daphne Pursued by Edward Teller"
Luminous series

2004
Wood-fired Ceramic
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MARC LANCET
Marc Lancet lives in Davis, CA with
his wife Annette and his daughter
Evan. He is the author of Japanese
Wood-fired Ceramics with
Masakazu Kusakabe of Miharu,
Japan. His work is in the permanent
collection of The Shigaraki Ceramic
Cultural Center of Shigaraki, Japan;
The International Ceramic Center,
Skaelskor, Denmark; and the Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco.
Lancet’s work appears in Clay and
Glazes for the Ceramic Artist By
Rhodes and Hopper, Hands in Clay
by Speight and Toki, Functional
Pottery by Hopper, Ceramic
Extruder for the Studio Potter by
Conrad and Raku, a Practical
Approach by Brafman. His writing
and art have been published in
Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Art
and Perspective, Clay Times, The
Log Book, and the Turning Wheel.
Lancet is in his twenty fifth year as
professor of three-dimensional art
at Solano Community College. He
has been a visiting professor of
sculpture at Portland State
University and at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. He
exhibits and teaches internationally.
I propose to examine two
distinct models for the
exhibition of works of art,
one centered on what I
shall call resonance and
the other on wonder. By
resonance I mean the
power of the displayed
object to reach out
beyond its formal
boundaries to a larger
world, to evoke in the
viewer the complex,
dynamic cultural forces
from which it has
emerged and for which it
may be taken by a viewer
to stand. By wonder I
mean the power of the
displayed object to stop
the viewer in his or her
tracks, to convey an
arresting sense of
uniqueness, to evoke an
exalted attention.

-Resonance and Wonder, Stephen
Greenblatt, from Exhibiting Cultures