Masters: Porcelain: Major Works by Leading Ceramists [Paperback]

Lark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2008 | Series: Masters

What motivates and inspires the finest porcelain artists working today? Forty internationally celebrated masters reveal their secrets, explaining just how they work with this incredibly demanding ceramic material, prized for its pristine beauty. Pure white and wonderfully delicate, porcelain is what clay potters usually graduate to only after years of honing their skills. This diverse collection showcases the results of that dedication, and the versatility is simply breathtaking: 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 and shadow passing through the walls of his pots.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Lark Books (January 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579909728
• ISBN-13: 978-1579909727
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #33 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Antiques & Collectibles > Porcelain & China

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Wonderfilled book, May 16, 2008

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Lorie Schinko (Montreal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Masters: Porcelain: Major Works by Leading Ceramists (Paperback)

I have to say,I am in love with lark 500 books,and this publication is no exception!

Porcelain is a tricky clay body to work with.I have tried it,and managed it,but still have not the capacity or patience for shrinkage,coloration,or for the historical fact that at one time, the clay was made from ground bones of the deseased!- even though some of my own stuff is in permanent gallery collections,according to what I have seen in this book,I am still an amateur. The wide variety of styles,colorations and applications of techniques held are more than most people can absorb in a single viewing. It's a volume that will last me,for years to come.

Very,very,highly recommended.If you want a library of the best of the best,to your personal tastes,this is a book to have and own.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Porcelain, September 23, 2009

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I'm not Nickolai "Tesla" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Masters: Porcelain: Major Works by Leading Ceramists (Paperback)

These artists are absolutely stunning. Porcelain itself is a wonderful, versatile medium, and each artist within this book makes incredible works. Also each artist tells about what draws them to porcelain, and what draws them to make their work.

1 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Busywork, March 27, 2009

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Edward S. Eberle (Pittsburgh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Masters: Porcelain: Major Works by Leading Ceramists (Paperback)

The entire project looks, reads and feels like busywork designed to keep a bunch of people busy without anything to really say and nothing new to offer except to say "There - I've finished that task. Now what else can I do to look busy?" And I say this even being represented in the book. Some or most say that it counts just to have your work seen, good or bad. I disagree.