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Ceramics are highly embedded in Danish culture. Since the Stone Age, clay has been cultivated by humans and used to manufacture everything from building materials and utility to sculpture and decoration. After the Second World War, throughout Denmark there were a number of one-man workshops of ceramics with professional education. They quickly got a production started, well helped by improved technical equipment and stimulating demand for good functional utilization. Along with the working culture, the studio ceramicists created unique work, which gradually took over in step with the increasing competition and the artistic and physical flows of time. The years from 1980 to the present constitute a rich period in Danish ceramics, where ceramics and artists with different assumptions and performances created experimental works. 'Danish Workshop Ceramics 1950-2010 in Designmuseum Denmark', with 632 works of 133 ceramicists and artists such as Asger Jorn, Ursula Munch-Petersen, Nina Sten-Knudsen, Peter Brandes, Jørgen Herman Kähler, Bjørn Nørgaard and Bjørn Wiinblad, give a unique insight into the range and the high quality of Danish ceramics, which is represented in the collection at Designmuseum Denmark. The book contains a review and description of the museum's collection of unique ceramic works from a period of 60 years, from the postwar period to the present day. Bodil Busk Laursen draws a picture of diversity and high level in Danish ceramics.