
On Camp Ceramics and Other Diversions: Daniel Kruger (1984-2005)
Daniel Kruger, born in 1951, is an international artist known for his "Camp" ceramics. The word "Camp" comes from the British slang meaning "absurdly exaggerated, artificial or affected in an unusually humorous way", and it often relates to gay aesthetics. This book presents 230 of Kruger’s ceramic pieces, in which he deals with preconceptions that provide a manipulated view of reality. He achieves his critical stance by unexpected and provocative combinations of form and decoration on conventional shapes like historic dinner services and vases, thus creating new interpretations. He explores the interstice between historical archetypes and Kitsch within the European ceramic history.