Paper Clay for Ceramic Sculptors: A Studio Companion [Spiral-bound]

Rosette Gault (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1993

Imagine, invent, model, carve, or simply play with a level of expressive freedom never quite possible in traditional clay. Just mix a favorite high or low fire earthenware, terra cotta, raku, stonewares, or porcelain with recycled paper. Ultra versatile affordable P'Clays increase pleasure and satisfaction. Use with or without a kiln. From beginner to expert, get answers to practicle questions answered now. A new section is included for classroom teachers, children, elders, and more. Tile or architectural scale projects in high fire stoneware and porcelain forming and casting methods are new to this edition, too.

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About the Author

Author and sculptor Rosette Gault was born in New York City. She earned her M.F.A. in Ceramics in 1978 at the University of Puget Sound and her B.A. in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1975. She began her study of pottery with Betty Woodman and Larry Clark in 1971. She has been practicing studio ceramic arts ever since. Research for this work has been supported in part over the years by Canada's Banff Centre for the Arts. A series of studio residency work periods since 1990 allowed workperiods of intense focus without distraction on this long term project. Listed in "Who's Who in America," holder of a U.S. patent, she is also the author of a second book Paper Clay in addition to this one. Her award winning ceramic work has been shown widely since 1978. She has lived and taught part time in Seattle for many years.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 71 pages
• Publisher: Clear Light Pub; 2nd edition (July 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963879308
• ISBN-13: 978-0963879301
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,038,326 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You need this book, but be forewarned . . ., September 9, 2007

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Lulu (Lafayette, LA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paperclay: For Ceramic Sculptors 3rd Edition (Paperback)

There are few books out there on paper clay, so if you're one who learns by reading there's precious little to choose from. If you're interested in the medium, you probably need to have this book. But be forewarned: though it contains lots of information not currently available from other sources, it's one of the worst-produced books I've seen in a very long time.

The book was evidently never put through a professional editing process, and it shows. It's full of typos, punctuation errors, and confusing sentences. After reading the first few pages, I concluded (erroneously, as it turns out) that English was not the author's first language. Here is a sample garbled sentence, admittedly one of the worst: "Join between bone and soft is usually better that same join at would be leatherhard." Some sections read more like the author's notes rather than a finished manuscript.

Many of the illustrations have been reduced so small that it's difficult to discern what's being shown -- and some of the labels, reduced along with the illustrations, contain type that literally required a magnifying glass to read.

The author decided to use a question-and-answer format for the entire book, which quickly becomes tiresome. As a result, there's no "narrative" to the book and the information is disjointed and episodic.

The book I received, although it says it's the 2007 "third edition," does not look like the one pictured here. Instead, it's printed in a very horizontal format (about 9 inches wide by 5 inches deep), which is awkward to hold and irritating to use.

If you have the patience to deal with all this, much information about paper clay can be gleaned from this book. The author quite obviously knows a lot and seems willing enough to share that with her readers. However, I believe the publisher does her, and us, a disservice by going into a third edition without taking care of these fundamental problems.

7 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars easy and clear, April 30, 2000

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HENRIQUE MARGULIS (venezuela) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paper Clay for Ceramic Sculptors: A Studio Companion (Spiral-bound)

i have found this companion boock easy and clear to follow.it have beeing a great help developing new forms in my studio.