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Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

PDF: Rothschild, review of Hear Me Now

Curated by: Adrienne Spinozzi, Associate Curator, American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Ethan W. Lasser, John Moors Cabot Chair of the Art of the Americas Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Jason R. Young, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Exhibition schedule: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (September 9, 2022–February 5, 2023); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (March 4–July 9, 2023); University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (August 26, 2023–January 7, 2024); High Museum of Art, Atlanta (February 16–May 12, 2024)

Exhibition catalogue: Adrienne Spinozzi, ed., Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, 2022. 200 pp.; 154 color illus. Hardcover: $45.00 (ISBN: 9781588397263)

An enormous brown ceramic vessel beckoned visitors toward the entrance of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina at the show’s first venue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (fig. 1). An earthy-green glaze drips down the stately jar—a term that seems far too humble to describe the massive t

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Robert Hunter
Introduction

They say old pots never die, they just get broken and thrown away—only to be dug up by some ceramics fanatic who writes endlessly about their significance. Okay, perhaps no one has actually said that, but it is apt considering the content of the many articles that have appeared in Ceramics in America over the last thirteen years. And I am happy to say that the 2013 volume continues to epitomize the enthusiastic search for meaning in ceramics through dogged research, creative interpretation, and, in some cases, brilliant observation.

Ceramics scholars have been writing about American pottery for well over a century. The legendary Alice Morse Earle, one of the early pioneers writing on ceramics, produced numerous books and articles between 1890 and 1904 on early American material culture, among them China Collecting in America (1890). A self-proclaimed “china hunter,” Earle published much of the early knowledge about the use of imported Chinese and English wares in domestic settings in New England. Another hero of American ceramics was Edwin Atlee Barber, whose Pottery and Porcelain of the United States (1909) is still considered the bible for the history of domestic ceramics production. These authors, and of course others