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The Best of Pottery
Ed : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A Quarry Book, Juried selection from 15 countries.
A Potter's Companion
A collection of literature (essays, stories, poems) about the fascinating history, aesthetics and philosophy behind making pots, or any other works, by hand.
The Contemporary Potter
"Over 800 beautiful, original pottery pieces including teapots, platters, cups, bowls, and vessels. Production methods and a wide range of styles and techniques.
A Chosen Path
Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body of work she has produced in her more than sixty years in the studio is remarkable for its depth, personal voice, and consistent innovation. Many of her pieces defy category, invoking body and landscape, pottery and sculpture, male and female, hand and eye. Equally compelling are Karnes's experiences in some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation: from the worker-owned cooperative housing of her childhood, to Brooklyn College under modernist Serge Chermayeff, to North Carolina's avant-garde Black Mountain College, to the Gate Hi...
Hand of the Potter
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Choosing Craft
Choosing Craft explores the history and practice of American craft through the words of influential artists whose lives, work, and ideas have shaped the field. Editors Vicki Halper and Diane Douglas construct an anecdotal narrative that examines the post-World War II development of modern craft, which came of age alongside modernist painting and sculpture and was greatly influenced by them as well as by traditional and industrial practices. The anthology is organized according to four activities that ground a professional life in craft--inspiration, training, economics, and philosophy. Halper and Douglas mined a wide variety of sources for their material, including artists' published writing...
The Best of Pottery
"This pottery collection resulted from an open, juried competition of more than three thousand photographic images. ... It is a snapshot of the state of pottery, taken in 1996. Its intent is to illustrate both variety and quality, for which the jurors should be commended."--Introduction, p. [4-5]. Includes more than 250 pieces by potters from fourteen different countries, including England, Korea, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Germany, Australia, and the USA.
Creation Out of Clay
This lovely book presents essays and recent works in porcelain by Brother Thomas Bezanson, praised as "one of the greatest artists in the Western pottery world" by well-known Japanese ceramicist Tatsuzo Shimaoka. Brother Thomas explores his faith and the process of creation side by side with illustrations of the celebrated porcelain vases, plates, and tea bowls that are his life's work. The book also contains a nineteen-page photo essay on Brother Thomas at work in his studio by Bill Aron of Los Angeles, an introduction by Joan Chittister, and an illustrated index of the works of Brother Thomas now held in more than fifty museum collections around the world.
Studio Potter
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Libro registro
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