Jim Melchert: Where The Boundaries Are is the first monograph to document Jim Melchert’s esteemed and influential career — an artist who challenged ceramic traditions of expression, form, and function and helped elevate the medium’s acceptance into mainstream contemporary sculpture. It presents an overview of his life in the arts, including his involvement in the California Funk movement, his groundbreaking 1970s performances, his work in conceptual art, and the broken tile works that preoccupied the artist at the end of his long career.

Jim Melchert (1932-2023) has been described as the "great philosopher of the post-war craft movement."

Written by Griff Williams

Essays by Sequoia Miller, Tanya Zimbardo, Maria Porges, and Renny Pritikin

Hardbound, cloth covered

12 inches x 10.5 inches

256 pages

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