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Displayed on each page are bowls that reinterpret the form, and use techniques from across the globe and through the centuries. More importantly, every piece, such as Kate Maury’s wheel-thrown porcelain, Stephen F. Fabrico’s slab-built bowl with handles, and Ruchika Madan’s stoneware fruit bowl, testifies to the artist’s boundless inventiveness. Captions give each bowl’s size, with details on its material and glazes.

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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Lark Books; 1 edition (March 28, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1579903622
  • ISBN-13: 978-1579903626
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 7.9 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,396 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful - Inspiring - Interesting!, September 15, 2003
By Marilynne (Richmond, Ma. United States) - See all my reviews
For me the book is full of ideas, form, style, technique, decoration and color. I'm an amature potter who loves to make bowls and vessels. I find the book to be a great companion when I need help making decisions about what I want to make and where to begin. I sometimes need to be inspired with ideas or picture and then make it my own by evolving it into my creation. Sometimes I fine it very rewarding to see if I can recreate a vessle that I like. The results are always interesting although not the same, or necessarlly inspiring! I guess that is why I'm an amature but I love the effort and the place that working on my pottery takes me. The book has a permanate place in my studio.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 500 Bowls to Bowl You Over!, May 21, 2003
By Barbara Hanselman (Cherry Hill, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
In addition to being beautifully presented, the bowls depicted in this trim 8" x 8" publication, run the gamet from functional to sculptural, not missing some wonderful stops in between. Leslie Thompson's Patterned Pueblo Bread-Raising Bowl is a perfect example of function - a utilitarian shape accented with a band of scraffito patterning - and at the same time, sculptural in appearance. Her Hatched Triangles bowl further back in the collection is just that, a sculptural interpretation of classic form! What's even nicer is that in many instances, more than one bowl is shown by the same artist, giving the peruser a sense of the creator as well as their creations. This book showcases clay artists chosen for their work rather than their notoriety, something many other contemporary epistles fail to do. A great compliment to this is Lark's previous publication, 500 Teapots.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly different, November 12, 2006
I am astonished that anyone could find this book a dissapointment! Only, not,when I read the reveiws that were not too great were written by people who wanted a more functional or traditional result,perhaps...
I like it.Once again,this book opened up an area in my own artistic approach-to "think outside the Bowl"! If you are an artist,or sculptor that has been at it a good 10 or 15 years,as I am,and you need a new vien to tap,this is a great book to get.Mostly,I found it treated the surfaces,interior or exterior,like a canvas.not a vessel to be filled with cereal or mashed potatoes,but as an object,to be viewed,and give the onlooker an "eyeful" It's again,one of the best in the lark 500 books.
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