1. Clay as elemental wholeness, Kenneth R. Beittel . 2. The existential base, Philip Rawson. 3. Appreciating ceramics or so much more than just an egg cup or a milk jug, Ian Wilson . 4. Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon), Silvia Forni . 5. Ceramics and art criticism, Janet Koplos . 6. Death and Clay: Cultural and personal Interpretations in ceramics, Christopher Garcia and Tomaru Haruna . 7. Heart like a wheel: What is Hollywood telling us about working with clay?, Sarah Archer. 8. Analogy and metaphor in ceramic art, Philip Rawson . 9. Metaphors, Myths and Making Pots, Laurel Birch Aguilar . 10.Sculptural Vessels across the great divide: Tony Cragg's Laibe and the metaphors of clay Imogen Racz . 11.The function of decoration: Wedgwood Herbert Read, . 12.The Arts and Crafts Movement. GB, USA, Germany and Austria, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Hungary and Italy, Emmanuel Cooper . 13.A Matter of Tradition: A Debate Between Maguerite Wildenhain and Bernard Leach Brent Johnson . 14.Contemporary design of the 1950's Rie and Coper in context Lesley Jackson . 15.Studio Pottery, Tanya Harrod . 16.Towards a standard, Bernard Leach . 17.Towards a Double Standard?, Edmund De Waal . 18.Re-inventing the wheel - the origins of studio pottery, Julian Stair . 19.The Archie Bray Foundation: A Legacy Reframed, Patricia Failing . 20.Studio Ceramics: The end of the story?, Jeffrey Jones . 21.A Rough Equivalent: Sculpture and Pottery in the post war period, Jeffrey Jones . 22.California (Funk), Scott, A, Shields . 23.Cooled Matter: Ceramic Sculpture in the expanded field, Mitchell Merback. 24.The New Ceramic Presence, Rose Slivka . 25.Metamorphosis: the culture of ceramics, Martina Margetts . 26.Antony Gormley in conversation with James Putnam - James Putnam. 27.Ceramics and Installation, Emma Shaw . 28.Ceramic Installation Towards a self-definition, Ruth Chambers. 29.Multiplicity, Ambivalence and ceramic installation art, Glenn R Brown . 31.Reconsidering 'The Pissoir Problem', Bruce Metcalf. 32. The Modern Pot, Glenn Adamson. 33. Social Complexity and the historiography of ceramic, Paul Greenhalgh . 34. Speak for yourself, Edmund De Waal . 35. Object Theory, Paul Mathieu . 36. Between a toilet and a hard place, Garth Clark . 37. Manufacturing Validity; the ceramic work in the age of conceptual production, Lizzie Zucker Saltz. 38. On Dirt, Ingrid Schaffner. 39. Contemporary Clay, Clare Twomey . 40. Elastic/Expanding; Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics, Jo Dahn . 41. Extending Vocabularies: Distorting the ceramic familiar - clay and the performative 'other', Andrew Livingstone . 42. And into the Fire post studio ceramics in Britain, Glenn Adamson . 43. Gender, Identity and studio ceramics, Moira Vincentelli . 44. Queering the Museum, Matt Smith . 45. The Personal Political Pots of Grayson Perry, Louisa Buck & Marjan Boot . 46. Body language: ceramics to challenge the white world, Ruth Park . 47. Rubber and Clay: South African material 'aftermodern', Elisabeth Perrill . 48. Plunder Me Baby - Kukuli Velarde and the ceramics of Taiwan's first nations: Virtual Ventriloquism as articulated in the 2014 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Wendy Gers . 50. Ceramics and painting - an expanded field of enquiry, Veronika Horlik . 51. Paul Scott's Confected landscapes and Contemporary Vignettes, Amy Gogarty . 52. Embracing Sculptural Ceramics: a lived experience of touch in art, Bonnie Kemske . 53. Vicious Figurines: Penny Byrne's Ceramic Advocacy, Inga Walton . 54. The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary Ceramics, Peter Selz . 55. The influence of educational institutions on contemporary ceramics, Andrea Gill . 56. The Digital Future: Reimagining Ceramic Education in the 21st Century, Holly Hanessian . 57.Transitions: A brief history of Modern Ceramics, Marek Cecula . 58. National Identity and the problem of style in the post-war British ceramics Industry, Graham McLaren. 59. Continuity or Collapse: Ceramics in a post-industrial era, Jorunn Veiteberg . 60. The UK marketing strategy in response to globalization c1990-2010, Neil Ewins . 61. Meta-making and me, Ingrid Murphy . 62. Museums and the interstices of domestic life; Re-articulating domestic space in contemporary ceramics practice, Laura Gray . 63. The museum as medium specific muse, Ezra Shales . 64. Environment, art, ceramics, and site specificity, Brad Evan Taylor . 65. When forms become attitude - A consideration of the adoption by an artist of ceramic display as narrative device and symbolic landscape, Mike Tooby . 66. Why Clay?, James Beighton and Emily Hesse . 67. Civic ceramics: shifting the centre of meaning, Natasha Mayo and Melania Warwick . 68. Ceramics as an archaeology of the contemporary past, Christopher McHugh . 69. Re-defining ceramics through exhibitionary practice, Laura Breen.