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Masters:
Porcelain — Major Works by Master Ceramists
This provocative and engaging visual delight
presents spectacular porcelain pieces from 40 of the leading international
artists working today. Prized for its unique qualities of pristine
whiteness, strength, and texture, porcelain is an unusual and notoriously
difficult clay whose very definition remains subject to debate. The 40
sculptors and potters who have been chosen by Richard Burkett to appear in
this curated collection expand and challenge traditional perceptions of
what the medium can — and should — do. Their work represents the great
diversity in practice — both technical and aesthetic — that porcelain
affords the ceramists who mine its tremendous potential. Claire Curneen
presents highly emotive, tactile figurative forms. Edmund de Waal’s
elegant celadon site-specific vessel installations are renowned for their
meditative presence. Harlan House’s finely carved vessels take
inspiration from nature’s organic forms, while Bodil Manz’s eggshell
porcelain cylinders are so translucent that you can sometimes discern
light shadow passing trough the walls of his pots.(336 pages, 600+color
photos, 9” x 8” x 1” / Paper with flaps) by Richard Burkett.
C-300-71
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Raku
(2nd Edition)
This new edition of Raku has new text and is beautifully illustrated with
images from the work of many highly-regarded raku potters. As in the
previous edition, an important focus of the book is the exploration of the
work, inspiration and influences of sixty-five artists, including new
techniques by established raku potters and also the work of more recent
converts to the medium. This also remains a highly practical book for the
practicing potter, providing an overview of raku techniques, covering clay
types, glazes, kilns, firing methods and reduction processes. It also
provides recipes for clays and glazes used by the potters featured. A
history of raku is also included. Starting at its inception in Japan at
the end of the 16th century, its introduction to the West by Bernard
Leach, right upto the present day. (224 pages/300+ color photos /8
1/2" X 11"/ hardcover).
C-300-357
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Fired with Passion:
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
This is one of the first books to illustrate the remarkable achievements
of ceramic sculpture in post-1945 Japan. Strikingly photographed, the
authors discuss and analyze over 230 images of Japanese ceramic art from
noted Western collections and Japanese museums. To better understand today’s
artists—heirs of the world’s oldest ceramic tradition-- a survey of
the history of Japanese ceramic art is included. This book promises to be
a revelation to the general art-loving public, Asian art aficionados, and
practicing potters. (245 pp/ 230+color photos/ 10” x 12 ¼”/
hardcover)
C-300-278
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Betty Woodman:
Essays by Janet Koplos, Arthur Danto & Barry Schwabsky
This book is an homage to Betty Woodman, with many wonderful photographs
of her artistic career. These include a retrospective collection of the
artist’s work, as well as photos of the artist at work and her studio in
Italy. Three essays discussing the artist and her unique use of color,
design and form make this a must read for any ceramic artist or sculptor.
(286pp/500+ color photos/ 10 ½” x 8 ½”/hardcover)
C-300-249
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The Remarkable Potters of Seagrove:
The Folk Pottery of a Legendary North Carolina Community
The tiny town of Seagrove, North Carolina has a 200-year-old tradition of
ceramic production enduring through cycles of hardship, war and social
upheaval. Charlotte Vestal Brown presents the fascinating stories of many
of Seagrove’s best-known potters. The story begins in 1800 with the
first settlers and ends by focusing on 13 notable contemporary
craftspeople. Complete with hundreds of photographs, this book will appeal
to artists, collectors, and anyone interested the development of a rural
potting community. (144 pages, 300+ color photos/ 8 ¾” x 11 ½”
hardcover)
C-300-245
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Roberta Griffith
- A Retrospective
This book is a comprehensive
catalog of the artists work covering her ceramics, painting, drawing, and
installations as well as various sources of inspiration. With process
photos of the artist producing some of her works, this volume is an
inspiring addition to any ceramic art library. 157 Pages Softcover with
over 200 full color photos. 8.5" X 12" X 1/2"
C-300-355
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Kate Malone
- A book of Pots
If you seek to understand a truly inspired life in clay, take a look at
this wonderful new book about Kate Malone and her work. She is fearless,
innovative, wildly creative, and produced everything from outrageous
functional teapots to large outdoor sculptures. If you are not yet
familiar with this work, you are in for an unimaginable treat. With over
300 full color photographs, Malone reveals the many secrets of her
innovations, detailing techniques, glazes and tools used in her work. She
is truly one of the most dynamic contemporary potters. (11-1/4" X
9-3/4" X 1" Hardcover) 207 Pages.
C-300-345
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Robert Turner
- Shaping Silence: A Life in Clay
Robert Turner is one of the most important ceramic artists in the United
States today. Distinguishing himself in the art pottery movement of the
sixties, Turner rose to prominence when he moved from functional pieces to
sculptural forms and began to create a body of work notable for its
dynamic yet serene forms.
From the outset, Turner's life and work had
a strong spiritual base. His Quaker beliefs and early pacifist views led
to his being stationed in work camps during World War II. After the war,
he gained wide recognition when he set up the first ceramic studio at the
renowned Black Mountain College in North Carolina, known for its
leadership of the avant-garde art movement. Decades of distinctive,
pioneering work culminated in top awards in the United States and Europe
in the 1990's.
Beautifully illustrated with pivotal works
spanning the artist's distinguished career, Robert Turner-Shaping the
Silence not only relates the compelling story of a young artist's journey
toward formal mastery but furnishes essential documentation on one of the
most intriguing periods of the American crafts movement. Artists,
collectors, and students will find this volume inspirational and
invaluable on many levels. (10.5" X 7.75" X 3/4” Hardcover) By
Marsha Miro and Tony Hepburn 157 Pages with over 75 full color images.
C-300-315
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Movers & Shakers
in American Ceramics: Defining Twentieth Century Ceramics - A collection
of articles form Ceramics Monthly
This remarkable collection of 20
Ceramics Monthly articles, written by Elaine Levin over a period of 25
years, tells the stories of some of the most notable figures who shaped
the ceramic and art movement in the United States during the 20th century.
Levin relates to the often long struggles and ultimate successes of 26
Movers and Shakers who dedicated their lives to a single
vision-unselfishly pushing ceramic art into uncharted territory so other
could enjoy and benefit from their efforts. From Binns, Baggs, Robineau,
and Heinos and the Wildenhains, through Voulkos and Soldner, to Saxe,
Rothman, and Olsen, these personal stories are sure to educate and inspire
ceramic artists well into the 21st century. (8.5" X 11" X
3/4" Softcover) 136 Pages with over 100 photographs mostly B&W.
By Elaine M. Levin
C-300-337
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The Mud-Pie Dilemma
2nd Edition - A Master Potter's Struggle to Make Art and Ends Meet
The universal dream of doing work you love and earning a living at it
forms the heart of this new edition of a book that has become a favorite
of many potters. This fresh account of The Mud-Pie Dilemma updates by 25
years the classic story of Tom and Elaine Coleman and their struggles to
create a successful, loving marriage and family while master potter Tom
seeks to realize his extraordinary potential as a ceramic artist. The
first edition of this book ended with them achieving high artistic and
critical success, and low financial rewards. This new edition extends
their story from 1977 to 2002, from a farmhouse and studio in Canby, to a
studio in the dessert outside Las Vegas, Nevada.
A new chapter documents how their lives and
work have changed and grown over a quarter-century, and 76 new photographs
show their dazzling results. Tom's work achieves new heights of artistry
and recognition, and Elaine emerges as a notable artist in her own right.
The Mud-Pie Dilemma also provides inside
information-including recipes for 40 of Tom's much-praised glazes-about
the craft and art of working in clay. (8.5" X 11" X 3/4"
Hardcover) 217 Pages with over 100 B&W photographs, ending with over
80 full color photos. By John Nance.
C-300-334
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The Mad
Potter of Biloxi: The Art & Life of George E. Ohr
It has been over twenty years now
since the work of a wild and inspired art potter named George Ohr was
rediscovered down in Biloxi, Mississippi. Over 7,000 pots of unparalleled
virtuosity and imagination were found crammed into barrels in the family
attic. During his lifetime (1857-1918) the self-styled Mad Potter of
Biloxi had been dismissed with condescending incomprehension by artists
and critics who were more concerned with conventional beauty than with
originality. Like many true mavericks he died in obscurity.
Eccentric Ohr was far from crazy, and
today, half a century later, the genius of this radical and sophisticated
artist has finally been recognized. While his thin-walled, paper-light
pots were labeled grotesque in his day, they can now be seen as
masterpieces of delicacy and restraint, and stunning explorations of the
plasticity of clay. Ruffling, twisting, tearing, and collapsing the
fragile walls of his earthenware pots, Ohr — one of the most expert
throwers the potter's wheel has ever known — pushed the form of the
vessel far beyond mere function to the point of abstraction. In doing so
he anticipated many of the developments we now take for granted in
contemporary art and ceramics. His glazes, sensual, richly textured, and
utterly idiosyncratic, stand as some of the most beautiful ever created.
Stunningly illustrated with 140 color
images of his most important pieces, this landmark volume presents the
first major study of George Ohr, America's archetypal artist-potter and
one of the most fascinating characters ever to spring from the Mississippi
mud. A wonderful selection of historical photographs accompanies the
volume's essays, which have been written by three of the foremost experts
on this iconoclastic genius. Beautifully woven together, the text and
images of this book confirm a judgment the Mad Potter once passes on
himself: "Unequaled! Unrivaled! Undisputed!" (12-1/4" X
10-1/4" X 1" Hardcover) Garth Clark, Robert A. Ellison, Jr and
Eugene Hecht. (191 Pages with 140 color images)
C-300-292
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Chihuly
One of the world’s most well-known glass artists, Dale
Chihuly’s artwork is presented magnificently in this 368-page color
book. Glass, which is basically pure glaze, is the medium primarily used
here. This book is an excellent addendum for a clay art book collection.
Chihuly’s glass has dazzled critics and international audiences and this
book is no exception. (11 ¾” X 9 ¾” X 1 ½” Hardcover) (368 Pages
302 Illustrations and 248 color plates) Donald Kuspit
C-300-267
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Clarice
Cliff: The Art of the Bizarre
This is a great Art/reference book for collectors and admirers of Clarice
Cliff. Her bold, uncompromising work during the Art Deco movement has made
her one of the most renown ceramic designers of the 20th Century. This
book chronicles her claywork with stunning color photos and explores her
life as a creative force in the 1930s and 40s (192 Pp/ 120 Color+100
B&W Photos/ 8”x11”/ HC) (Leonard Griffin)
C-300-189
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The Living
Tradition of Maria Martinez
Now in paperback! This
award-winning book chronicles the life and work of one of the greatest
Native American potters. Craft Horizons called this “The most carefully
prepared and richly illustrated monograph on a single Indian potter and
the influence she has exerted on her family and her pueblo. It is a
landmark book that will not date, but serve as a reference for the future.”
Highly recommended. (300 Pp/ 337 Color and B&W Photos/ 8½”x12”/
Paperback) (Susan Peterson)
C-300-49
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Howard
Kottler: Face to Face
NEW! Somehow, Howard Kottler (1930-1989), stays forever young. Because of
his early demise, we’ll never know what other great works may have come
from this artist. In this book, the author traces Kottler’s artistic
development. Starting with his grounding as a traditional craft potter
leading us through the many stages that brought about his final transition
into a conceptual sculptor. Influenced by developments in painting and
sculpture during the 1950s through the ‘80s Kottler’s work reflects
the profound changes that American ceramics underwent as a whole during
this period. An enlightening look at the growth of a fascinating artist
and his craft. (244 Pp/ 20 Color + 160 B&W Illus/ 8½”x 11“/
Hardcover) (Patricia Failing)
C-300-252
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The Unknown
Craftsman
Without question, this has been one of the books most revered by potters
for the last two decades. The text consists of selections from the
extensive writings of Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961), the “father of the
Japanese folk-craft movement”. This intimate volume includes a Forward
by Shoji Hamada and an Introduction by Bernard Leach, and is beautifully
photographed throughout. (231 Pp/ 12 Color + 64 B&W Plates/ 7”x9½”
/Paper) (S. Yanagi)
C-300-124
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