Concentrates on the century's leading ceramists who represented the vanguard of the ceramic-art aesthetic

A Century of Ceramics in the United States 1878-1978 - A Study of Its Development

Garth Clark

Arts & Photography

Dutton Adult

Concentrates on the century's leading ceramists who represented the vanguard of the ceramic-art aesthetic

Century Ceramics Index USA

Margie Hughto

Plume

Michael Cardew

Literature & Fiction

Faber and Faber

Based on its universal appeal and everyday use, tea has inspired the creation of exquisite objets d’art; above all, the spouted, steaming engine of hospitality: the teapot. In fact, the teapot has drawn widespread attention from the world’s leading designers and artists for centuries because it is what French sculptor Arman calls one of the key objects of our time. This delightful book celebrates the chameleon-like form of the teapot, and how it is considered not only an icon for hospitality but also an inventive vehicle for artistic expression. The Artful Teapot features, in full, lavish color, more than 200 enchanting teapots representing its 500-year history of enjoyment and use. Readers will find captivating examples from Yixing—the birthplace of the teapot—as well as such famous producers as Meissen, Minton, Wedgwood, and others. Here are artful teapots that balance form, surface, and function in search of beauty . . . revolutionary teapots seeking—fascinatingly but fruitlessly—to improve on this most perfect invention . . . teapots inspired by natural forms . . . teapots made from surprising materials like dollar bills, glass beads, and soda cans . . . teapots used as a format for politics or propaganda . . . teapots using animals or people as their subject . . . and last but not least, the teapot created purely for art’s sake—pots removed from function, where tea evaporates and imagination replaces the fragrant leaf as content. Plus, fascinating text written by Garth Clark, the preeminent scholar of modern ceramics, provides an appealing discussion of these objets d’art that is as provocative, playful, and profound as the teapots themselves. • Teapots featured in this book form the basis for an exhibition that opened in November 2001 at the American Craft Museum in New York City, which is traveling until 2004, visiting six other American museums • First comprehensive guide featuring the artistic beauty of teapots through five centuries of use

The Artful Teapot

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Tony Cunha

Antiques & Collectibles

Watson/Guptill

Drawn from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Color &amp; Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 accompanies a major touring exhibition on the history of ceramic art in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 color photographs, Color &amp; Fire explores the roles of key artists and the major stylistic movements they developed during the decades of pioneering innovation. Based on the premise that the history of studio ceramics can be regarded as a series of breakthroughs or milestones, Color &amp; Fire highlights the moments when talented artists came together to produce work in clay that challenged traditions and promoted aesthetic freedom. In the early years of the twentieth century, pottery was primarily mass-produced in factories, where specialists in wheel throwing, glazing, and kiln firing worked under a system of divided labor. In the 1930s and 1940s, ceramists such as the renowned team of Gertrud and Otto Natzler began to perform all of these exacting functions-from mixing clay to firing kilns-in their own studios, creating one-of-a-kind pots, breathtaking in design and construction. Since that time, ceramic art has followed a metaphorical journey from the earth to the air, as concerns with utility, materials, and techniques have given way to abstract conceptual considerations. In Los Angeles in the 1950s, Peter Voulkos and his students upset the traditional values of craft pottery and the Bauhaus- inspired "form follows function" doctrine by creating nonfunctional, oversized, off-kilter vessels with cracks and holes, along with massive Abstract Expressionist monuments. In the 1960s in northern California, Robert Arneson and his students shattered taboos against clay as a sculptural medium in the oversized, off-kilter vessels with cracks and holes, along with massive Abstract Expressionist monuments. In the 1960s in northern California, Robert Arneson and his students shattered taboos against clay as a sculptural medium in the hands of potters with their radical, irreverent, and satirical "Funk" pieces. Today, no longer confined to the decorative arts or other craft categories, ceramic artists around the world explore an unlimited range of influences, styles, and ideas, engaging in a graceful and inventive dialogue with centuries of ceramic tradition. A celebration as well as a valuable art-historical survey, Color &amp; Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000 showcases the finest works form the unparalleled collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Accessible to the novice as well as to the enthusiast, the book includes essays by Grechen Adkins, Garth Clark, Jo Lauria, Rebecca Niederlander, Susan Peterson, and Peter Selz.

Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000

Susan Peterson

Peter Selz

Jo Lauria

Gretchen Adkins

Rebecca Niederlander

Travel

Rizzoli

tradition of rural English slip-decorated earthenware

Michael Cardew: A portrait

Distributed by Harper & Row

Book by Susan H. Peterson, Jerry Rothman, Garth Clark, Mike McGee

Feat of Clay: Five Decades of Jerry Rothman

Susan H. Peterson

Jerry Rothman

Mike McGee

Laguna Art Museum

The Mad Potter of Biloxi (The Art & Life of George E. Ohr)

EUGENE HECHT

Robert A. Ellison Jr.

Abbeville Press

Book by Oliver Watson, Garth Clark

American Potters Today: An Exhibition of American Studio Pottery (Victoria & Albert [Museum] Ceramic Series)

Oliver Watson

Victoria & Albert Pubns

Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye

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