Lucio Fontana: Sculpture

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Lucio Fontana: Sculpture
by Paolo Campiglio, Jan Van Der Marck, Lucio Fontana, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson

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Best known for the slashed and cut canvases--and related spatial environments--of the Concetti spaziali that he created primarily in the 1950s and 60s, Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) trained as a sculptor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and used ceramics and clay modeling to explore larger problems in sculpture and painting. Lucio Fontana: Sculpture is published in conjunction with the first U.S. museum exhibition dedicated solely to the artist's groundbreaking ceramic work, and explores the innovative and often contrarian ways in which Fontana made use of the medium. With a foreword by Aspen Art Museum CEO and Director, Chief Curator, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, the publication collects landmark text by Jan van der Marck, Paolo Campiglio and Lucio Fontana himself, and features thoughts on Fontana's influence from contemporary sculptors Kathy Butterly, Charles Long and Katy Schimert.

• Rank: #358480 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 82 pages

Contemporary Tableware

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Contemporary Tableware
by Linda Bloomfield

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Ceramics

Tableware has occupied a special place in our kitchens and dining rooms for thousands of years, and continues to enchant us today. Ranging from the purely functional to the fine and delicate, the evolution of domestic pots tells us much about our changing tastes and habits, and the wider art and cultural movements that have influenced their decoration and forms. In Contemporary Tableware, maker Linda Bloomfield looks at the history of the pots on our tables, from Sung Chinese and Medieval English ware to the revival of studio pottery and the influence of Scandinavian, American and Japanese design. She goes on to examine common forms in contemporary tableware, including teapots, bowls, cups, jugs and plates, and to explain the elements of form, function and beauty in each. Lavishly illustrated with examples from contemporary studio pottery and industry, as well as making images from working potters, this book is the essential guide to modern tableware for potters, designers and buyers.

• Rank: #758861 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Enamels Enameling Enamelists

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Enamels Enameling Enamelists
by Glenice L. Matthews, Matthews
(2)

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Ceramics

Everything you'll need to know to enamel on silver, gold, copper, aluminum and other metals. From preparation and application to firing and safety precautions. Techniques covered include graffito, cloisonne, grisaille, plique-a-jour and more.

• Rank: #60434 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 177 pages

Clay and Glazes for the Potter (Chilton's Creative Crafts Seri)

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Clay and Glazes for the Potter (Chilton's Creative Crafts Seri)
by Daniel Rhodes
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Ceramics

Daniel Rhodes' seminal book on the fundamentals of ceramic technology has been expanded and updated by one of today's leading ceramists. Includes additions devoted to health hazards and computer calculation programs, more color information, and 250 color photos.

• Rank: #41061 in Books
• Published on: 1973-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 349 pages

Paperclay: Art and Practice (The New Ceramics)

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Paperclay: Art and Practice (The New Ceramics)
by Rosette Gault

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Ceramics

Paperclay is an extremely versatile material for the contemporary potter. Now firmly established in the ceramics world, this mix of clay and paper fibers is remarkably flexible, strong, and easy to repair. This highly workable medium allows expressive freedom and imagination at every stage in the creative process, even after drying and firing. In Paperclay, artists will discover the world of possibilities offered by this blend of earth, paper, and water.

Building on the success of her previous books, artist and teacher Rosette Gault explains how potters and clay sculptors can make, fire, and reshape paperclay. This comprehensive guide covers a range of methods from dry modeling to slurry state. Going beyond the basics, the book introduces advanced techniques for building armatures, sculpting figures, and forming wall hangings. It also includes information on recycled and sustainable ingredients. Paperclay features all-new color photographs and diagrams of techniques and tools, as well as inspiring works by today's leading international ceramicists.

Packed with photographs and clear instructions, Gault's book is an essential introduction to paperclay for ceramics artists and educators.

• Rank: #885617 in Books
• Published on: 2013-06-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

500 Glass Objects: A Celebration of Functional & Sculptural Glass (500 Series)

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500 Glass Objects: A Celebration of Functional & Sculptural Glass (500 Series)
by Lark Books
(9)

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On display: the most magnificent collection of handmade glass creations ever assembled!
Handmade glass objects are taking the craft world by storm with their great variety and beauty. Juried by Maurine Littleton, a gallery owner and distinguished presence in the studio-glass field, these 500 outstanding pieces capture the finest work done by top artisans worldwide. Cast your eye over flameworked goblets, cast vases, blown cups, and fused and slumped bowls. Jane Lee's stoneware "Rainbow Bowl" is a symphony of brilliant color, while Keith Weiss-Cole's graceful furnace-blown "Sculpture of Two" glows with light. The magnificent techniques on display include mosaics, enameling, engraving, carving, and etching, and the unique shapes and eye-catching designs will amaze any art or craft lover.

• Rank: #272802 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x 1.18" w x 7.99" l, 2.43 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 396 pages

Paul Klee: Life and Work

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Paul Klee: Life and Work
by Michael Baumgartner, Christine Hopfengart, Paul Klee

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Ceramics

The many books on Paul Klee (1879-1940) published over the years should not obscure the fact that there has been no new, comprehensive Klee overview since Will Grohmann's much reprinted 1954 monograph. With Paul Klee: Life and Work, the Zentrum Paul Klee has set out to fill this gap, drawing on a wealth of new resources including the Klee family's archives, much of which is published here for the first time. Life and work are truly integrated in this massive, 344-page volume: Klee's vast body of work is surveyed chronologically, as the book narrates his life alongside the abundant reproductions of drawings, paintings, watercolors, sculptures, puppets and numerous archival documents and photographs (500 reproductions in total, half of which are color). The book divides Klee's career into eight periods: "Childhood and Youth"; "Munich and the Encounter with the Avant Garde"; "World War I and the Breakthrough to Success"; "At the Bauhaus in Weimar"; "Master of Modern Art"; "The Move to Dusseldorf and the Nazi Rise to Power"; "First Years of Emigration in Bern"; and "Final Years." The result of many years of research and labor, this magisterial publication demonstrates conclusively why Klee numbers among the most influential and best loved artists of the past 100 years.

• Rank: #395379 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 344 pages

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
by Edmund de Waal (Author), Michael Maloney (Narrator)
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Ceramics

Nifty Plates from the Fifty States: Take a Ride Across Our Great Nation*Learn About the States from Their License Plates!

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Nifty Plates from the Fifty States: Take a Ride Across Our Great Nation*Learn About the States from Their License Plates!
by Paul Beatrice
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Ceramics

More than 1,000 fascinating facts are packed into this cool travel kit for kids, which contains an informative book, 50 die-cut color license plate cards, a map of the USA, and four pencils and pads kids can use to track each state’s license plates whenever they’re in the car. (Whoever identifies the most plates from different states wins!) All cards include the state capital and an image of the state flag, along with historical tidbits, current statistics, and notes on each state’s most famous residents. And to keep things organized, the cards are tied together with nylon cord and packaged in a license plate designed box. No parent should leave home without this!

• Rank: #57024 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Released on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.09" h x 1.73" w x 4.49" l, 1.12 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 16 pages

The Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade in Clay (500 Series)

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The Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade in Clay (500 Series)
by Lark Crafts
(1)

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Ceramics

This definitive collection features a decade's worth of memorable ceramic pieces selected from the prestigious and bestselling 500 series. Juried by a roster of acclaimed artists, including such talents as Cynthia Consentino, Beth Cavener Stichter, Richard Notkin, and Sergei Isupov, each piece captures the power of ceramics at the start of a new century. Ceramicists and art enthusiasts alike will treasure the wealth of knowledge offered in this lavishly illustrated keepsake volume as the experts describe what makes a particular vase, teapot, sculpture, or bowl stand out. 
 

• Rank: #23989 in Books
• Published on: 2012-09-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.99" h x 1.30" w x 7.99" l, 3.00 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 420 pages

5000 Years of Glass

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5000 Years of Glass
by Hugh Tait

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Ceramics

This is a new edition of this definitive world history of glassmaking and decorative techniques from 2500 BC, updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. This classic book traces the history of glassmaking from its origins in Western Asia some 5000 years ago, through the invention of glassblowing around the first century BC, to the introduction of mechanised processes and new styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. It highlights the flourishing industries of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the extraordinary achievements of the Roman Empire, the elegant vessels of the Islamic Near East, the superb mastery of Renaissance Venice and the wide ranging experiments of modern Europe and America. With a new final chapter by John P. Smith, Editor of "The Glass Circle" journal, to bring the book right up to date with the latest developments, 5000 Years of Glass is still the definitive single volume general history of this most versatile art form.

• Rank: #237187 in Books
• Published on: 2012-11-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Potter's Primer

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Potter's Primer
by Morgen Hall
(2)

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Ceramics

NEW BOOK IN PRISTINE CONDITION.

• Rank: #34908 in Books
• Published on: 1997-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

The Pot Book

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The Pot Book
by Edmund de Waal, Blanche Craig
(4)

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Ceramics

The history of ceramic art is ingrained in the history of mankind. Clay is one of the very first materials 'invented' by man. An essential part of our lives it has been moulded, thrown, glazed, decorated and fired for over 30,000 years in order to preserve and transport food and water. In more recent times clay has been used not just by artisans and potters, but also by artists, designers and architects.

The Pot Book is the first publication to document the extraordinary range and variety of ceramic vessels of all periods, in a comprehensive and accessible A to Z format. From a delicate bowl made by an unnamed artisan in China in the third millennium BC, or a jug made in eighteenth-century Dresden, to a plate made by Picasso in 1952, a 'spade form' made by Hans Coper or the vases of Grayson Perry today, it's all in included in this beautifully illustrated collection. Each entry is sequenced in alphabetical order by the name of the artist/potter, the school, or style, creating a grand tour through the very finest examples of the art form.

• Rank: #31273 in Books
• Published on: 2011-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 11.42" h x 1.50" w x 9.84" l, 3.90 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Dish: 813 Colorful, Wonderful Dinner Plates

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Dish: 813 Colorful, Wonderful Dinner Plates
by Shax Riegler, Robert Bean
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A globe-trotting, century-hopping celebration of dishes

As every great hostess knows, the right dinner plates bring design, color, and drama to the table and elevate an ordinary meal into something special. Dish is a visual celebration of these everyday pieces of art that have been the objects of desire of kings, queens, brides, chefs, and hostesses for centuries.From the first wooden trenchers of the Middle Ages to the seventeenth-century China trade, from twentieth-century designer wares to the colorful melamine plates so widely available today, more than 800 plates are on display here. With insightful descriptions and an expert’s knowledge, author Shax Riegler makes the case that the dinner plate is so much more than just a vessel to deliver food; it’s a piece of art to be admired.These are plates created by storied masters such as Spode and Wedgwood, modernists like Russel Wright and Homer Laughlin, and even today’s contemporary designers like Vera Wang and Diane von Furstenberg. Dish shows them in full color with large photographs, detail shots, and even back-of-the-plate photos, delivering a feast for the eyes for obsessive fans and casual admirers alike.With a timeline of plate highlights in history, sidebars showcasing the most popular designers, and a list of the top 100 patterns of all time, Dish will leave readers looking at the common dinner plate in a whole new way.

• Rank: #50241 in Books
• Published on: 2011-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x .98" w x 10.00" l, 3.30 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Ardmore: We Are Because of Others

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Ardmore: We Are Because of Others
by Ardmore Ceramic Art

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Ceramics

Ardmore ceramics are found in major collections in several European countries, the United States and South Africa and have been given as state gifts to, among others, Bill Clinton, Jacques Chirac, Queen Elizabeth II and Empress Michiko of Japan

Giraffe stretch out their necks and bat-eared foxes curl their tails to make handles for jugs, vases and tureens. Inquisitive monkeys peer over the edge of a planter, teasing the leopards below them. Magical creatures wear cloaks of flowers, spots and stripes; a turbanned Zulu figure sits astride a hippo...

Colorful, imaginative, vibrant, delicate and dramatic these are just some of the hallmarks of the artworks that have garnered international accolades for Ardmore Ceramic Art in rural KwaZulu-Natal. It is here, in South Africa s most successful ceramics studio set in the verdant Midlands, that exquisitely handcrafted and highly detailed figurative works and functional ware are created by more than fifty artists who draw on Zulu traditions and folklore, history, the natural world, and their own lives for inspiration.

In turn, it is the lives of the sculptors and painters of Ardmore that fire the vision of the woman behind it all: Fée Halsted is an artist whose love of teaching and determination to fight poverty and AIDS have set others on the path of creative self-discovery and ultimately worldwide acclaim.

Ardmore We Are Because of Others tells the extraordinary story of this famous studio from its humble beginnings in a poverty-stricken corner of South Africa to its fame as a producer of exceptional and irresistible objets d art prized by collectors, galleries and museums throughout the world. It is also the story of the indomitable Fée Halsted who is the driving force behind the enterprise, and the artists whose inventive spirit and fearless creativity are at the heart of Ardmore.

• Rank: #229338 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 216 pages

Thinking is Making: Presence and Absence in Contemporary Sculpture

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Thinking is Making: Presence and Absence in Contemporary Sculpture
by Martin Herbert, Fiona Macdonald, Matilda Strang, Michael Taylor

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Ceramics

Thinking is Making celebrates ten years of the Mark Tanner Sculpture prize and questions both the presence and absence of the object and its maker within contemporary British sculpture.

• Rank: #5911610 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Indoor Mosaics: Great Ideas, Sample Projects and Designs

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Indoor Mosaics: Great Ideas, Sample Projects and Designs
Sigalit Eshet (Author)
(1)

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Ceramics

Would you like to decorate your home with handmade work that you made by yourself? Are you looking for some interior design ideas? In this book you will learn how to decorate your home with mosaic projects; some easy and some more complicated. The book contains step-by-step projects like hot pot bases, mirrors and picture frames, candy plates, and many more mosaic ideas. If you love mosaics and want to get new ideas – this it the perfect book for you.

• Rank: #63094 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-11-30
• Released on: 2012-11-30
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame (Volume 1 and 2) Third Edition

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Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame (Volume 1 and 2) Third Edition
by Bandhu Scott Dunham
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Ceramics

This 2-volume set is an outstanding teaching guide for lampworking glass. The sprial binding allows the books to lie flat while working. Included in the volumes are a glossary of terms and techniques and a reference for locating glass working tools. Hundreds of photos and step-by-step processes.

• Rank: #54234 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Hardcover-spiral
• 511 pages

The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the Counterculture (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

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The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the Counterculture (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
by Ms. Tanya Harrod

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Ceramics

The British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, a husband and father who was also homosexual, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. Graduating from Oxford in 1923, training with the legendary Bernard Leach, he went on to lead a life of pastoral poverty in Gloucestershire, making majestic slipware and participating in the polarised design and political debates of the 1930s. A wartime project in Ghana turned him into a fierce critic of British overseas policies; he remained in West Africa intermittently until 1965, founding a local tradition of stoneware inspired by the ambient material culture, independent of European imports, made by Africans for Africans. He ended his days a ceramic magus, his pottery at Wenford Bridge, Cornwall, an outpost of the counterculture and a haven for disaffected youth. In North America, the Antipodes and sub-Saharan Africa he offered the egalitarianism of craft as an antidote to racism and inequality. As the novelist Angela Carter observed in 1977, he came to seem 'the Last Sane Man in a crazy world.'

Along with historians of Empire and civil rights, and art and design historians, readers with a general interest in British cultural history will want to read this book.

• Rank: #424483 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 380 pages

The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, Fifth Edition

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The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, Fifth Edition
by Frank Hamer, Janet Hamer
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Ceramics

Now available in its fifth edition, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques presents a comprehensive survey of all aspects of making ceramics for craft potters and ceramic artists. With its sound, practical explanations of ceramic processes, this indispensable reference book has gained a reputation as "the potter's bible." Professional potters, beginners, students, and collectors will find authoritative information clearly and logically presented.

Frank and Janet Hamer explain the sources and character of materials, the behavior of clays and glaze minerals during forming and firing processes, forming methods, and glaze construction. In addition to brief outlines and detailed articles with cross references to illustrations, color photographs illustrate glaze effects and surfaces featured in the work of inventive, contemporary potters. The varied techniques of Raku, maiolica, crystalline glazes, salt and soda, stoneware, and porcelain are also presented in a new color section.

This new edition has been updated to include auto-reduction, crystalline glazes, insulation, stains, and specialized firing and fuming techniques. With upwards of 800 illustrations to clarify everything in the ceramic world, in its fifth edition The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques will continue to serve as the authority on all things ceramic.

• Rank: #58175 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.51" h x 8.46" w x 10.84" l, 4.55 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 544 pages