colin renfrew

This essay is on pottery as art and archaeology and the role of touch and how we view pottery as artists, archaeologists and as viewers in the gallery or museum. To make pottery, the potter needs to touch and shape clay by hand. The potter uses fire to set those shapes and decoration for all time. People who use pottery touch the object in different ways depending on its purpose. The archaeologists who recover pottery from their sites, touch pottery to recover, conserve and interpret finds. The pottery on display in museums or art galleries moves against the very nature of pottery as storage vessels, serving dishes or cooking vessels and usually cannot be touched.

Ankara Üniversitesi Protohistorya ve Önasya Arkeolojisi Yüksek Lisans öğrencisi olarak, seminerlerimi paylaşmaktaki amacım; öğrenci arkadaşlarıma araştırdıkları konular hakkında ufakta olsa izlenebilecek yol ve literatür konusunda yardımcı olmasıdır.  Paylaştıklarım sadece eğitimim boyunca hazırladığım bazı seminerlerdir. Herhangi bir yerde yayınlanmış araştırmalar değildir.