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Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Life and Art of Beatrice Wood by Garth Clark, Beatrice Wood	1893164136 Reviewer: Donna Ragsdale (see more about me) from Green River, Wyoming THE GILTED VESSEL is a beautiful book about an amazing woman and potter. Her life is more wonderful than any fiction and her pottery is exquisite. The only flaw is that it is too short; I want more. Average Customer Review: Click here for more information.

*Sculptural Ceramics* by Ian Gregory, Aan Gregory	087951938X Be the first person to review this book! Click here for more information.

Studio Pottery: Twentieth Century British Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection by Oliver Watson, Ian Thomas, Mike Kitcatt	071482948X Reviewer: drake@ gci.net from Anchorage, Alaska Shows at least 1,000 examples of shapes and textures that can give anyone ideas to throw at. Now that I can not have it, I want it! Oh well. Let me know when this book becomes available.Pig in the Poke Pottery Average Customer Review: Click here for more information.


*Color and Fire* by Jo Lauria, et al	0847822540 *Book Description* Drawn from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Color & Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 accompanies a major touring exhibition on the history of ceramic art in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 color photographs, Color & Fire explores the roles of key artists and the major stylistic movements they developed during the decades of pioneering innovation. Based on the premise that the history of studio ceramics can be regarded as a series of breakthroughs or milestones, Color & Fire highlights the moments when talented artists came together to produce work in clay that challenged traditions and promoted aesthetic freedom. In the early years of the twentieth century, pottery was primarily mass-produced in factories, where specialists in wheel throwing, glazing, and kiln firing worked under a system of divided labor. In the 1930s and 1940s, ceramists such as the renowned team of Gertrud and Otto Natzler began to perform all of these exacting functions-from mixing clay to firing kilns-in their own studios, creating one-of-a-kind pots, breathtaking in design and construction. Since that time, ceramic art has followed a metaphorical journey from the earth to the air, as concerns with utility, materials, and techniques have given way to abstract conceptual considerations. Average Customer Review: Click here for more information.

*Ten Thousand Years of Pottery* by Emmanuel Cooper	0812235541 Reviewer: Midwest Book Review (see more about me) from Oregon, Wisconsin Now in a fully updated and expanded fourth edition, Ten Thousand Years Of Pottery continues to be a wonderfully lavish and illustrated history of pottery making from its antiquarian beginnings with the earliest Near East and Middle civilizations to the present day. A global perspective is taken with representations from the Mediterranean, Asian, Islamic, Meso American, neolithic Britain, to the Wedgwood and de Morgan factories, contemporary Africa, India, Scandinavia, and Australasia. Ten Thousand Years Of Pottery concludes with detailed and comprehensive analysis of the development off ceramics as a medium of personal expression by present day artists and studio potters. Ten Thousand Years Of Pottery is an essential historical, critical, scholarly, and very highly recommended reference drawing upon the immense informational resources and artifacts from museums, collectors, and practicing potters. Average Customer Review: Based on 1 review. Click here for more information.
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