Pottery making is one of the oldest and most widespread of human activities, with a history that can be traced back to the Stone Age. Stylistic and technical changes over time reveal a great deal about the societies in which the pottery was made, so that clay vessels serve as essential cultural and dating indicators, as well as objects of individual skill and creativity.
This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive account begins with the earliest civilizations of the Near East and Middle East and follows the production of pottery chronologically around the globe, from the Mediterranean and the Orient to the Islamic world and ancient America, from neolithic Britain to the factories of Wedgwood and de Morgan, from contemporary Africa and India to Scandinavia and Australasia. The final chapters analyze the development of ceramics as a medium of personal expression by artists and studio potters during the twentieth century.
This is the fourth edition of a work that has been deemed a classic since its first publication in 1972 and, for this new edition, has been completely revised, expanded, and redesigned, with new illustrations throughout. The illustrations are drawn from museums, collectors, and practicing potters across the word and offer representative examples of the major styles, materials, and forms of all periods, allowing us to make comparisons and see relationships between the works of potters who may be widely separated in space and time.
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"An essential historical, critical, scholarly, and very highly recommended reference."—Bookwatch
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Emmanuel Cooper is internationally known as a potter, writer, and broadcaster and as the editor of the highly respected and influential magazine Ceramic Review. He has written widely on both modern and historical ceramics and has contributed to Pottery in the Making.
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An essential, historical, comprehensive scholarly reference.,
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This review is from: Ten Thousand Years of Pottery (Hardcover)
Now in a fully updated and expanded fourth edition, Ten Thousand Years Of Pottery continues to be a wonderfully lavish and illustrated history of pottery making from its antiquarian beginnings with the earliest Near East and Middle civilizations to the present day. A global perspective is taken with representations from the Mediterranean, Asian, Islamic, Meso American, neolithic Britain, to the Wedgwood and de Morgan factories, contemporary Africa, India, Scandinavia, and Australasia. Ten Thousand Years Of Pottery concludes with detailed and comprehensive analysis of the development off ceramics as a medium of personal expression by present day artists and studio potters. Ten Thousand Years Of Pottery is an essential historical, critical, scholarly, and very highly recommended reference drawing upon the immense informational resources and artifacts from museums, collectors, and practicing potters.
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Very glad to have it...Cooper seems to have an incredible amount of knowledge to provide a lot in detail to the large subject here. Either that or he did an a lot of research. It's also written and organized well - again, not easy for a history book covering a technology that developed around the world at different times. I am an amateur potter and never took any art history, so I have no benchmark for this book other than what i'd like to learn about the history of pottery. There are many, many good photos - probably 1-3 per page - but i wish there more to complement Cooper's intriguing descriptions.
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This is the kind of book that I will look at frequently. It gives me such a global idea of my craft.
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The discovery that clay was plastic, that it could be modelled and shaped, dried and then baked in a fire to transform it into ceramic, was made many thousands of years ago. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lustre decoration, modelled decoration, colouring oxides, earthenware temperatures, immigrant potters, white tin glaze, stoneware forms, transparent lead glaze, stoneware temperatures, underglaze colours, studio potters, coloured glazes, throwing marks, matt glazes, ornamental wares, manganese purple, coloured slips, stoneware production, glaze effects, underglaze blue, celadon glaze, functional wares, red stonewares, many potters, studio pottery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bernard Leach, North America, United States, Bronze Age, Low Countries, Josiah Wedgwood, New Mexico, Royal College of Art, William Morris, Near East, New Jersey, New Zealand, South America, Michael Cardew, Second World War, Henry Doulton, First World War, Great Britain, Lucie Rie, Nile Valley, Thomas Whieldon, Asia Minor, Central America, Hamada Shoji New!
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lustre decoration, modelled decoration, colouring oxides, earthenware temperatures, immigrant potters, white tin glaze, stoneware forms, transparent lead glaze, stoneware temperatures, underglaze colours, studio potters, coloured glazes, throwing marks, matt glazes, ornamental wares, manganese purple, coloured slips, stoneware production, glaze effects, underglaze blue, celadon glaze, functional wares, red stonewares, many potters, studio pottery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bernard Leach, North America, United States, Bronze Age, Low Countries, Josiah Wedgwood, New Mexico, Royal College of Art, William Morris, Near East, New Jersey, New Zealand, South America, Michael Cardew, Second World War, Henry Doulton, First World War, Great Britain, Lucie Rie, Nile Valley, Thomas Whieldon, Asia Minor, Central America, Hamada Shoji New!
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- Guide to the New Forest (AA / OS leisure guides) on page 51, and page 141
- William Morris by Linda Parry on page 263
- British Museum Pb by R G W Anderson in Back Matter
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