Looking at how artists from all over the world have modeled the human form in ceramics, The Figure in Fired Clay provides lavish full-color illustrations and examples from prehistoric times to the present, along with the historical, mythological, and methodological background to this fascinating subject. Stunningly beautiful drinking vessels and pottery, some fashioned in the shape of people or animals, some with these figures painted on their exterior, have enhanced the domestic rituals of all cultures, and are brilliantly depicted and examined alongside the experiments of the modern masters-Picasso, Mo Jupp, Eric Mellon, and others.
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Betty Blandino has been a full-time studio potter since 1973, after a career in education as a teacher, art advisor to schools, and director of several art galleries. She has had many solo and group exhibitions, and her work is in permanent collections all around the world.
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Betty Blandino's new book, The Figure in Fired Clay is spectacular. The collection of gorgeous photos alone make it a very thumbable coffee table book, but--make no mistake--it is more than that. Blandino reviews the history of the seemingly universal tendency of people all over the world to take a lump of clay and mold it into a recognizable figure. Many of these artefacts come from civilizations of which we have no other surviving record. I loved the section on the earliest clay figures, and also the wonderful photographs of the work of contemporary ceramicists, many of whom were quite new to me. Betty Blandino is a distinguished potter herself, and this is what brings this book to life. As she says in the Foreword: "Nothing but a small lump of soft clay accompanying these paper pages could have allowed those who have not used it to understand and feel the pleasure of this tolerant, flexible material as well as appreciating the wilfulness of its character." I highly recommend this book if you are interested in pottery, and/or the human form, and perhaps like me have not seen how these two interests go together.
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Glenys Barton, Christie Brown, Claire Curneen, William Newland, Anna Lambert, Christy Keeney, Eric Mellon, Han Dynasty, Pablo Picasso, Ruth Barrett-Danes, Sandy Brown, Tracey Heyes, Helen Ridehalgh, Michael Flynn, Middle Ages, Pamela Leung, Papua New Guinea, Royal College of Art, Saint Longinus, Snake Goddess, T'ang Dynasty, World War New!
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