Best of Pottery (Vol 1) [Hardcover]

Angela Fina (Author), Johnathan Fairbanks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1996

This beautiful collection honors the world's best potters. Selected from thousands of entries, more than 250 pieces are showcased in this full-color volume. Featuring teapots, platters, bowls, vessels, and more, this comprehensive guide includes a wide range of pottery styles and techniques.

Potters from fourteen different countries, including England, Korea, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Germany, Australia, and the USA, show their great talent and creativity. The variety of subject matter and beautiful illustrations found in these pages will provide inspiration for both the professional and amateur artist. An essential addition to the library of any potter, aspiring artist, or collector.

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About the Author

Jonathan Leo Fairbanks is the Katharine Lane Weems Curator of the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. His expertise in American pottery and ceramics has evolved from a lifetime of collecting, study, and exhibition jury work. His employment has ranged from cataloging and analyzing collections at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware to participation in work at archaeological sites to the collection and display of American pottery and ceramics for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Fairbanks received graduate degrees in art history, studio practice, and American sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania, Academy of Fine Atts, Philadelphia, and the University of Delaware. He is a board member of The Studio Potter magazine, honorary Fellow of the American Crafts Council, and President of the Decorative Arts Trust. As an advocate for contemporary crafts, Fairbanks lectures widely and has conducted courses at such institutions as Harvard University, Boston University, Wellesley College, and the Haystack School in Maine.

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564963136
• ISBN-13: 978-1564963130
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 9.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #685,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely a must read for the potter and student., October 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Best of Pottery (Vol 1) (Hardcover)

As a student, I found this book to be the greatest selection of current artists and techniques in ceramics today. Great color illustrations and glaze and firing information is included. Can't wait for the second one! A true coffee table book. This does not belong on a shelf, The Best of Pottery belongs in the studio!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent photos to get your creative juices flowing!, September 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Best of Pottery (Vol 1) (Hardcover)

I look through this book every night and see different things I want to try each time. Lot's of unique and great photos of ceramic art. Not a how to, but a pictorial showing the beauty and fun of ceramics.