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Ten Thousand Years of Pottery

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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.

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.

This is the kind of book that I will look at frequently. It gives me such a global idea of my craft.

i ordered the 5th edition. when i serached for the item the 5th edition title came up but on the individual item to select it said nothing about which edition it was. i assumed it was the 5th but when i got it i was wrong. they gave me the 4th.