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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Insightful - Inspiring - Interesting!, September 15, 2003
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
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 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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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