Clay - A human history MIT Press SAVVY Contemporary

SAVVY Contemporary

I am already looking forward to the second volume

accursed mountains and treacherous terrains

Illustration: Falk Nordmann

is to be beyond the singular and the dominant

Clay - A human history MIT Press SAVVY ContemporaryClay is baked into our culture: we have been taking handfuls of earth and forming them into their own image since our history began. In Clay: A Human History, Jennifer Lucy Allan navigates the story of humankind and our relationship to making and creativity through our relationship with this enigmatic, ancient material. Born out of a desire to know and understand the spiritual and practical applications of clay in both its micro and macro histories,