The Best of Pottery, Volume 2 [Hardcover]

Christopher Gustin (Author), Chris Staley (Introduction)

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About the Author

Angela Fina received a Master of Fine Arts from the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology. A teacher and artist, she taught ceramics at colleges in New York and Canada for 16 years. After a year as an invited resident artist at the Penland School of Crafts, she set uup a professional studio in Amherst, Massachusetts. A self-supporting potter for 17 years, Fina works in porcelain and specializes in high-temperature reduction glazes. Her work includes thrown tableware and containers for Japanese flower arranging, and is shown in galleries, museum shops, and invitational shows all over the United States. She teaches workshops in porcelain and glaze technology, and has served on many craft show juries.

Christopher Gustin attended the Kansas City Art Institute, from which he received his BFA in 1975, and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, where he received his MFA in 1977. Gustin began his teaching career in 1978 at Parsons School of Design in New York. IN 1980, he joined the faculty at the Program in Artisanry at Boston University, and in 1985, the program moved to the Swain School of Design in New Bedford. He has been Asociate Professor of Ceramics and Design at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, since 1988. After twenty years of teaching, he is retiring from academia to devote his full time energies to his studio work. Gustin has presented many workshops and lectures throughout the United States and abroad, and his work is published extensively. He has had numerous exhibitions, and is represented in many public and private collections.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers; First Edition edition (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564964469
• ISBN-13: 978-1564964465
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #496,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good to the Last Drop, October 27, 2000

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This review is from: The Best of Pottery, Volume 2 (Hardcover)

I love this book as much as the last one. Like the first volume, The Best of Pottery Volume 2 presents a wonderful variety of works by current artists and includes with each photograph little sum ups on their techniques and glazing methods. The book is divided into the categories of Earthenware, Porcelain, and Stoneware. The majority of the book is pictures because it discloses the selected pieces of a juried contest based on slides. The pictures are fully colored, displaying in vivid detail each piece and their unique personalities. The picture format takes a step forward from the first book by taking every vessel (not a selected half) out of their original slide picture, enlarging them to show detail, and placing them carefully on the page. This format allows the pottery to have their own breathing space on the page without cluttering it with backgrounds. This book is perfect for students and professionals because it inspires and challenges your own ideas. The Best of Pottery Volume 2 is an excellent way to see three-dimensional art pieces in a two-dimensional format.