500 Bowls: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design (Paperback)

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Five hundred inspiring variations on the simple, functional bowl will fire any potter's imagination. Displayed on each page are bowls that reinvent and 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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Product Details 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: #104,078 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in these categories: (What's this?) #42 in  Books > Arts & Photography > Other Media > Ceramics #82 in  Books > Home & Garden > Crafts & Hobbies > Pottery & Ceramics

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews 18 of 19 people found the following review helpful: 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. 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. 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly different, November 12, 2006 By  Lorie Schinko (Montreal) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    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.		Ad feedback   Most Recent Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars Kaleidescope Delicious cross section of 500 or so examples of the specifically clay contemporary bowl form.About 250 largely US artists.Several are included twice. Read more Published 8 months ago by John Feesey 5.0 out of 5 stars love this book! If you are a potter, this book will inspire you to new heights. The many different techniques provide the reader with a visual treat and many ideas. Read more Published 8 months ago by C. Oster 5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful and inspiring book, not for recipes This is a great book for inspiration. I love the photos and descriptions. This is not the book for the how-to lessons, but is great eye-candy for any artist working with a bowl... Read more Published 13 months ago by R. Foster 5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Designs Beautifully presented, with 500 timeless ideas and references. If you are a potter and looking for inspiration - this book is a gold mine. Published 19 months ago by H. S. Solecki 5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration from 500 beautiful clay bowls I'm a clay artist who does hand building...My teacher brought in this book to share with our pottery class. Read more Published on May 13, 2007 by Marly 5.0 out of 5 stars Inspired! This book is beautifully photgraphed, like all the 500 series books, and weather you put it on your coffee table or in your studio, it lights up the imagination and inspires the... Read more Published on April 4, 2007 by Candace D. Kilgrow 5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful simple bowls It is the simplicity of the bowl on the cover that draw us in, though it is difficult, as there is no cover credit in the edition I own, to find who that artist is. Read more Published on December 5, 2006 by Siyi 5.0 out of 5 stars Bowl (n) 1. A hemispherical vessel... I have a hunger for bowls. Objects that can hold other objects, particularly food, fascinate me. This book feeds my hunger with beautiful color photos of more bowls than my brain... Read more Published on August 20, 2005 by MAE C-D 1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, but here's another recommendation This book follows the current trend in ceramics which says if it isn't "far out " , misshapen, weird, and/or ugly it isn't "in". Read more Published on March 16, 2005 by Disgusted Potter 5.0 out of 5 stars 500 ideas 500 BOWLS & its companion 500 TEAPOTS is a source of inspiration for any potter. I hope the keep publishing these books. Oh, I love Lark Publications! 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Product Details

• 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: #104,078 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

  Popular in these categories: (What's this?)

  #42 in	Books > Arts & Photography > Other Media > Ceramics
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

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.

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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly different, November 12, 2006

By	Lorie Schinko (Montreal) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.