This text aims to provide and insight and inspiration by bringing together the work of 36 leading ceramic artists. It examines their explorations of the ceramic medium and how they develop their individual techniques.
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This review is from: Ceramics - Ways of Creation (Paperback)
CERAMICS, WAYS OF CREATION is a highly informative look at 36 contemporary artists who are "pouring" ceramics, working with the wheel, and molding various kinds of clay. I don't know if these artists are the best in the world, or who could possible determine that, but all the artists depicted are working in America, and most seem to have acquired a M.F.A. and some recognition among peers and critics. Probably the most valuable aspect of CERAMICS is the light it sheds on the contempory ceramics work scene. The artists seem to be fairly representative of their art/craft. Porcelain and raku, organic and inorganic, poured, molded, pressed and pinched, utilitarian and nonutilitarian, spritual and irreverent, functional and disfunctional are represented. For example, Ray Strassberg's Holocaust vision and David MacDonald's African pots and calabashes are opposite ends of the life-death spectrum. Wayne Higby's beautiful and evocative "Lake Powell Memory-Rain" is somewhere in-between. Virginia Scotchie's "Vera's Garden" of stylized ceramic plants as big as the artist regenerate her memory of life as a child on her grandparents farm. The metaphysical "Primal Courage" of Joanne Hayakawa shows a stiff backbone (skeleton and pelvis) and Peter Pinnell brings the reader back to teatime with his wonderful teapots. Each section contains a short biography of the artist and discusses themes, types of clay, modeling techniques, firing temperatures, tempura, and other aspects of the creative process. The book also contains an appendix of terms. Probably not technical enough for the ceramics artist, but a wonderful book for those who are thinking of taking up the craft and want to appear semi-literate at the local art center.
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This review is from: Ceramics - Ways of Creation (Paperback)
[ASIN:0873416104 Ceramics - Ways of Creation]]This book is one of those you will wish to spend some time perusing reading and pondering. Use it to stimulate your mind and creative flow.
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The pictures were great and the dialog from the artists was informative, however I was hoping for more technical information.
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terra cotta clay body, light colored clay body, pinch forming, nonclay materials, stoneware clay body, colored clay bodies, porcelain clay body, earthenware clay body, many ceramists, soda firing, contemporary ceramists, relief imagery, vessel format, textured imagery, ceramics program, hay clay, majolica glaze, electric kiln, oxidation atmosphere, sculptural vessels, reduction atmosphere, kiln shelf, bisque fire, damp cupboard, painted imagery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Kansas City, Wayne Higby, Rhode Island School of Design, Val Cushing, Andrea Gill, Ann Arbor, Betty Woodman, Nova Scotia, Clay Studio, Greenwich House, Jeff Oestreich, John Stephenson, Neil Forrest, University of Washington, Eva Kwong, John Chalke, Kirk Mangus, Robert Arneson, Ron Roy, Syracuse University, University of Michigan, World War, Ann Currier, Archie Bray Foundation New!
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terra cotta clay body, light colored clay body, pinch forming, nonclay materials, stoneware clay body, colored clay bodies, porcelain clay body, earthenware clay body, many ceramists, soda firing, contemporary ceramists, relief imagery, vessel format, textured imagery, ceramics program, hay clay, majolica glaze, electric kiln, oxidation atmosphere, sculptural vessels, reduction atmosphere, kiln shelf, bisque fire, damp cupboard, painted imagery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Kansas City, Wayne Higby, Rhode Island School of Design, Val Cushing, Andrea Gill, Ann Arbor, Betty Woodman, Nova Scotia, Clay Studio, Greenwich House, Jeff Oestreich, John Stephenson, Neil Forrest, University of Washington, Eva Kwong, John Chalke, Kirk Mangus, Robert Arneson, Ron Roy, Syracuse University, University of Michigan, World War, Ann Currier, Archie Bray Foundation New!
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- The University of South Carolina (SC) (Campus History Series) by Elizabeth Cassidy West on page 186
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