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The first full-length publication to provide a comprehensive overview of Moroccan ceramics, The Earth has Three Colors traces its history from the rural domestic pottery of the indigenous peoples that inhabit the Rif Mountains, through 20th century Modernism, to the contemporary art of Marrakech. The book has three sections that center on the three different clay colors used in Morocco: indigenous red, traditional gray, and industrial white. This hardbound edition, with ten chapters, written in English with a French translation, is published for historians, collectors, ceramists and travelers, and is an important survey to bring the fascinating and previously unknown history of Moroccan ceramics into the international spotlight for the first time.
Author bio
David Packer is an artist who often works with ceramics; he was born in England and has lived in the United States since 1983, including Miami and New York City. He graduated from Florida State University, Tallahassee, with an MFA, in 1994. Highlights of his substantial exhibition record include Exit Art and the Garth Clark Gallery, both in New York City, as well as shows in Japan and Morocco. As a curator, his work has been included three times in the Spring Break Art Fair. He has been in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Kohler arts/industry program, all in the United States, as well as Youkobo in Japan and AIR Vallauris in France. Packer’s interest in Moroccan ceramics and the desire to write a book began in Fez in 2011, when he was a Fulbright scholar. He received a second Fulbright to Morocco in 2019, the same year his book about Moroccan ceramics, The Earth has Three Colors, was published.
