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Risk and Discovery
Hideaki Miyamura is a Japanese-born American studio potter working in New Hampshire. Driven by the pursuit of unusual iridescent glaze finishes through controlled testing and the minimization of chance, the artist is still open to risk and is guided by the mystical and spiritual power of giving life to hidden beauty. Porcelains created by Miyamura are included in numerous public collections including the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and he exhibits widely throughout the United States.
Ode to Joy
A mobile artist who lives and works in Boston, Mark Davis was drawn to the act of creating as a young boy. The discovery of Alexander Calder’s work at the age of fourteen had a deep influence on Davis’s early work, which consisted of stylized jewelry pieces, and has had a consistent presence throughout his career. In this lavishly illustrated volume, plants, animals, humans, and landscapes develop within the brightly colored and abstracted shapes that make up Davis’s body of work today. Vibrant palettes and abstracted sheets of metal are composed to create self-contained, kinetic narratives. Davis explores the three-dimensional spaces his work exists within, as well has his own interna...
Biblical Blaspheming
Explores the persistence of 'blasphemy' in modern secular democracies and examines ways of talking and thinking about the Bible.
David Aronson
As an immigrant artist of Jewish background, who borrowed freely from Christological, Jewish, mystical, and modernist motifs, David Aronson has been an equally acclaimed and controversial figure in the Boston Expressionist school and beyond. Defying all clear categorization, his highly evocative art moves precariously between the realms of the religious and the secular, between Judaism and humanism, tradition and modernity. This book includes rich reproductions of Aronson's works done in encaustic, pastel, charcoal, and bronze. It also contains Aronson's 1967 lecture "Real and Unreal: The Double Nature of Art," which offers a unique testimony of the intellectual background of his creative oeuvre. An interpretive essay by Asher Biemann of the University of Virginia places Aronson's work and biography in an historical, cultural, and intellectual context and comments on specific aspects of his art. Provocative and thoroughly documented, this volume will be of interest to scholars of art history, Judaism, and religion, as well as to a general audience.
The Best of Pottery
This volume continues in the tradition of The Best of Pottery, offering a rich gallery of new work honoring the world's best potters. Including wonderful pieces from more than 200 of today's most talented potters, this international collection takes in the full range of styles and techniques. The variety of subject matter and beautiful illustrations found in these pages will provide inspiration for both professionals and amateurs. This brilliant collection of pottery is an important sourcebook for craftspeople, gallery owners, students, land collectors, as well as the perfect gift for any pottery lover.
Claywork
"A comprehensive guide for beginners as well as for those with experience who want to make art of clay. Conceived as a basic studio course, it is also an up-to-date reference presenting many examples of contemporary American clayworks and explores ceramics from its beginning to the present."--Page 5.
The Vase and Beyond
"Less widely known than the Crocker Art Museum's master drawings of early Californian paintings and sculpture is its collection of 20th century studio ceramics. Since the 1950s, contemporary clay-both vessel and sculptural-has brought to the museum a constellation of creative ideas. This cataloged celebrates Sidney Swidler's gift of more than eight hundred pieces that form the Museum's Sidney Swidler Collection. Focusing on the vessel, the collection is a survey of the production of more than 300 artists. It spans the work of leading figures in the 20th century studio movement from Karen Karnes to Ewen Henderson and beyond. It is also forward-looking, including example from mid-career and em...
