Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Modelling and Sculpting the Figure
Book SynopsisAn essential guide to the creative process for sculpting the figure. The human figure in sculpture is a powerful form, capable of great expression and depth. Sculpting the figure in any medium is a rewarding practice, but one that can lead to some challenges. Tanya Russell, founder and principal of the Art Academy in London, details the whole creative process for sculpting the figure, from the fundamental conceptual and practical considerations through to the finished and presented work. She covers essential tools and equipment, methods for building armatures, and the processes for creating not only realistic, but also abstract and expressive figures, in a variety of styles and materials. Techniques are supported by practical exercises with step-by-step instructions and images. The book is filled with the inspiring works of contemporary sculptors, all of whom are tutors, students, or alumni of the Art Academy. Modelling and Sculpting the Figure is an essential companion for beginners and established artists alike.Trade ReviewBeautifully presented in a fairly simple format with clear and simple language. There are plenty of both colour and black and white images which are quite inspirational is themselves...This book is helpful in its focus on some universal artistic principles and approaches to sculpting the human figure. -- Mary Cousins * South Wales Potters Newsletter *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Language of Art Chapter 2: Getting Started Chapter 3: Armatures Chapter 4: The Realistic Figure Chapter 5: The Abstracted Figure Chapter 6: The Expressive Figure Chapter 7: Finishing Suppliers Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
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The Crowood Press Ltd Contemporary British Ceramics: Beneath the
Book SynopsisCeramics is one of the most vibrant and engaging fields of contemporary British art. This lavishly illustrated book reviews the work of twenty-two artists and celebrates their contribution to its rich landscape. Written from a collector’s point of view, it explores what contemporary ceramic objects can mean, what emotions they evoke and how artists draw upon different facets of the art and crafts worlds in their work. A vital visual and critical resource, Contemporary British Ceramics showcases British ceramics as a compelling interdisciplinary practice, attuned to the contemporary world. Featuring more than 280 images, it encourages readers to look beneath the surface, to discover the vibrant contribution that British ceramics makes to the broad field of contemporary art.Trade Review"An essential reference tool for anyone interested in modern ceramics." * Emerging Potters magazine *This is an essential book to understand the current ideas of British ceramics. The author, Ashley Thorpe, is one of the most prestigious experts on the subject. -- Infoceramica reviewer * Infoceramica *
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NMSE - Publishing Ltd A Passion for Glass: The Dan Klein & Alan J.
Book SynopsisDan Klein and Alan J. Poole began collecting in the late 1970s and over the subsequent thirty years assembled on the most comprehensive collections of modern British and Irish glass. The book includes work by over one hundred makers at the very cutting edge of their art. This dazzling collection was gifted to National Museums Scotland in 2009.Trade Review' ... For a student this is essential reading. For a collector it's an invaluable guide and personal primer. For a maker in the UK or Ireland, it's a family album that forms an important part of the collective story of who we are and what we are a part of. It should be on all our bookshelves.' Glass Circle NewsTable of ContentsPreface/Foreword by Alan J. Poole/Introduction by Jennifer Hawkins Opie/the Collection edited by Rose Watban, National Museums of Scotland/Bibliography/Biographical Information/Acknowledgements
£20.00
Cambridge University Press Courtly Mediators
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ceramics in the Victorian Era
Book SynopsisThis book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in recent scholarship, Ceramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature argues that the signification of a pot, a jug, or a tableware pattern can be more fully discerned in written and painted representations.Across five case studies, the book explores a rhetoric and set of conventions that developed within the representation of ceramics, emerging in the late-18th century, and continuing in the Victorian period. Each case study begins with a textual passage exemplifying the outlined theme and closes with an object analysis to demonstrate how the fusing of text, image, and object are critical to attaining the period eye in order to better understand the metaphorical meanings of ceramics.Essential reading not only for ceramics scholars, but also those of mTrade ReviewFocusing on the rich meanings that ceramics accrued through their use and subsequent representation in paintings and works of literature, this book embraces a radically new approach to the study of Victorian ceramics. * Penny Sparke, Director, Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University, London, UK *For anyone with an interest in the Victorian period this book is a treasure trove. Gotlieb offers a richly researched analysis of cultural messages conveyed by ceramics. The brown teapot, broken jug or willow pattern plate may be bit part players in art and literature, but they all tell powerful tales. * Moira Vincentelli, Emeritus Professor of Art History and Honorary Curator of Ceramics, Aberystwyth University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Ceramics as Agent of Design Reform and Aestheticism 2. Willow Pattern: A Mutable Agent of British Design and Art 3. Teacups Tell Such Wondrous Tales 4. British Pottery: Pride and Piety 5. A Victorian Pitcher Speaks a Thousand Words Conclusion Index
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CA Book Publishing China Without Dragons: Rare Pieces from Oriental
Book SynopsisThis fully illustrated and researched catalogue commemorates an exhibition of over 200 pieces of Chinese and related ceramics collected within the members of the Oriental Ceramic Society of London. The selection spans the complete range from Neolithic to contemporary ceramics, from minor kilns in many different regions to the major kilns working for the court, and from pieces of academic interest to world-famous masterpieces. It privileges unusual and rarely seen artifacts and avoids well known, repetitive designs such as that of the dragon, which is so firmly identified with China that it has become a cliche of Chinese art. It also aims to demonstrate the vast variety of wares and the inventiveness of Asian potters well beyond the classic confines. Text in English and Chinese.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Ceramics Reader
Book SynopsisAndrew Livingstone is Reader in Ceramics at the University of Sunderland, UK.Kevin Petrie is Head of Glass and Ceramics at the University of Sunderland, UK.Trade ReviewThe Ceramics Reader is a triumph. I do not doubt that it will be recognised as the most influential ceramics title of our decade. * Crafts *This book is absolutely recommended, and fortunately it is fitted with an index so it can also be used as a reference work. * Keramiske noter (Bloomsbury translation) *I have been reading sections of this superb and fascinating book in no particular order, such is the arrangement of this presentation of articles, essays and conference papers. * Anglian Potters Newsletter *The Ceramics Reader is part seed bank, bedrock, reagent, and compass. Livingstone and Petrie have assembled an invaluable reference that so elegantly represents and agitates both historic and contemporary discourse in the field of Ceramic Art * Brian Gillis, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Oregon, USA *Bringing together a rich collection of critical texts, from ceramic luminaries such as Philip Rawson and Garth Clark to the provocative writing of a younger generation of practitioners, The Ceramic Reader is the book we have been waiting for. * Stephen Dixon, Crafts Research Group Leader at Manchester School of Art, UK *The persistent echo of the art / craft debate and a long dismissal of ceramics as fine art has caused an identity crisis. This is a remarkably full and timely account to start a dialogue of inclusion and diversity in the art world. * Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Artist in Residence at the Ceramics Program Office at Harvard University, USA *An inspirational book that brings together informative and thought provoking texts that explore ceramics from different perspectives and viewpoints. Invaluable for research, it will make a significant contribution to the discourse, encouraging dialogue and debate between students and academics alike. * Felicity Aylieff, Head of the Ceramics and Glass programme at the Royal College of Art, UK *There is something in this book to inform anyone interested in ceramics, be they student, collector, academic or practitioner who work with or are interested in fired clay. * Shards: South Wales Potters Newsletter *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction - Livingstone and Petrie Pen and Kiln: a brief overview of modern ceramics and critical writing - Garth Clark Section One: Ceramics: Materiality and Metaphor Section Introduction - Livingstone and Petrie 1.1 Why are ceramics important? Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie 1. Clay as elemental wholeness - Kenneth R. Beittel 2. The existential base - Philip Rawson 3. Appreciating ceramics or so much more than just an egg cup or a milk jug - Ian Wilson 4. Containers of Life: Pottery and Social Relations in the Grassfields (Cameroon) - Silvia Forni 5. Ceramics and art criticism - Janet Koplos 6. Death and Clay: Cultural and personal Interpretations in ceramics - Christopher Garcia and Tomaru Haruna 1.2 Ceramics and metaphor Introductory summary Livingstone and Petrie 7. Heart like a wheel: What is Hollywood telling us about working with clay? - Sarah Archer 8. Analogy and metaphor in ceramic art - Philip Rawson 9. Metaphors, Myths and Making Pots - Laurel Birch Aguilar 10.Sculptural Vessels across the great divide: Tony Cragg’s Laibe and the metaphors of clay Imogen Racz Section Two: Ceramics in Context Section Introduction Livingstone and Petrie 2.1 Historical Precedents Introductory summary Livingstone and Petrie 11.The function of decoration: Wedgwood Herbert Read - 12.The Arts and Crafts Movement. GB, USA, Germany and Austria, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Hungary and Italy Emmanuel Cooper 13.A Matter of Tradition: A Debate Between Maguerite Wildenhain and Bernard Leach Brent Johnson 14.Contemporary design of the 1950’s Rie and Coper in context Lesley Jackson 2.2 Studio Ceramics Introductory summary Livingstone and Petrie 15.Studio Pottery - Tanya Harrod 16.Towards a standard - Bernard Leach 17.Towards a Double Standard? - Edmund De Waal 18.Re-inventing the wheel – the origins of studio pottery - Julian Stair 19.The Archie Bray Foundation: A Legacy Reframed - Patricia Failing 20.Studio Ceramics: The end of the story? - Jeffrey Jones 2.3 Sculptural Ceramics Introductory summary Livingstone and Petrie 21.A Rough Equivalent: Sculpture and Pottery in the post war period - Jeffrey Jones 22.California (Funk) - Scott, A, Shields 23.Cooled Matter: Ceramic Sculpture in the expanded field - Mitchell Merback 24.The New Ceramic Presence - Rose Slivka 25.Metamorphosis: the culture of ceramics - Martina Margetts 26.Antony Gormley in conversation with James Putnam – James Putnam 2.4. Ceramics and Installation Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie 27.Ceramics and Installation - Emma Shaw 28.Ceramic Installation Towards a self-definition - Ruth Chambers 29.Multiplicity, Ambivalence and ceramic installation art - Glenn R Brown 2.5 Theoretical Perspectives 31.Reconsidering ‘The Pissoir Problem’ - Bruce Metcalf 32. The Modern Pot - Glenn Adamson 33. Social Complexity and the historiography of ceramic - Paul Greenhalgh 34. Speak for yourself - Edmund De Waal 35. Object Theory - Paul Mathieu 36. Between a toilet and a hard place - Garth Clark 2.6 Conceptual and post studio practice Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie 37. Manufacturing Validity; the ceramic work in the age of conceptual production - Lizzie Zucker Saltz 38. On Dirt - Ingrid Schaffner 39. Contemporary Clay - Clare Twomey 40. Elastic/Expanding; Contemporary Conceptual Ceramics - Jo Dahn 41. Extending Vocabularies: Distorting the ceramic familiar – clay and the performative ‘other’ - Andrew Livingstone 42. And into the Fire post studio ceramics in Britain - Glenn Adamson Section Three: Key Themes Section Introduction - Livingstone and Petrie 3.1 Gender, Sexuality and Ceramics Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie 43. Gender, Identity and studio ceramics - Moira Vincentelli 44. Queering the Museum - Matt Smith 45. The Personal Political Pots of Grayson Perry - Louisa Buck & Marjan Boot 3.2 Identity and Ceramics Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie 46. Body language: ceramics to challenge the white world - Ruth Park 47. Rubber and Clay: South African material ‘aftermodern’ - Elisabeth Perrill 48. Plunder Me Baby – Kukuli Velarde and the ceramics of Taiwan’s first nations: Virtual Ventriloquism as articulated in the 2014 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale - Wendy Gers 3.3 Image Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie 50. Ceramics and painting – an expanded field of enquiry - Veronika Horlik 51. Paul Scott’s Confected landscapes and Contemporary Vignettes - Amy Gogarty 3.4 The body Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie 52. Embracing Sculptural Ceramics: a lived experience of touch in art - Bonnie Kemske 53. Vicious Figurines: Penny Byrne’s Ceramic Advocacy - Inga Walton 54. The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary Ceramics - Peter Selz 3.5 Ceramics in education Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie 55. The influence of educational institutions on contemporary ceramics - Andrea Gill 56. The Digital Future: Reimagining Ceramic Education in the 21st Century - Holly Hanessian 3.6 Ceramics, industry and new technologies Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie 57.Transitions: A brief history of Modern Ceramics - Marek Cecula 58. National Identity and the problem of style in the post-war British ceramics Industry - Graham McLaren 59. Continuity or Collapse: Ceramics in a post-industrial era - Jorunn Veiteberg 60. The UK marketing strategy in response to globalization c1990-2010 - Neil Ewins 61. Meta-making and me - Ingrid Murphy 3.7 Museum, site and display Introductory summary - Livingstone and Petrie 62. Museums and the interstices of domestic life; Re-articulating domestic space in contemporary ceramics practice - Laura Gray 63. The museum as medium specific muse - Ezra Shales 64. Environment, art, ceramics, and site specificity - Brad Evan Taylor 65. When forms become attitude – A consideration of the adoption by an artist of ceramic display as narrative device and symbolic landscape - Mike Tooby 66. Why Clay? - James Beighton and Emily Hesse 67. Civic ceramics: shifting the centre of meaning - Natasha Mayo and Melania Warwick 68. Ceramics as an archaeology of the contemporary past - Christopher McHugh 69. Re-defining ceramics through exhibitionary practice - Laura Breen Index
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Yale University Press Majolica Mania
Book SynopsisTrade Review“More than 1,000 lustrous Victorian vessels appear in Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915 . . . Dozens of scholars contributed essays about ceramics makers, from central England’s venerable Wedgwood to Manhattan’s forgotten James Carr. The [majolica] designs were as majestic as fountains and fireplaces covered in dragons, and as endearingly frivolous as boots for holding toothpicks and jugs portraying baseball players.”—Eve Kahn, New York Times“Weber and her team have produced an exceptionally well-illustrated and comprehensive database from which many new projects can grow.”—Edward S. Cooke Jr, The Burlington Magazine
£202.50
Arnoldsche Enric Mestre: Ceramic Sculpture
Book SynopsisDespite the fundamental functions that architecture must perform, it will always inspire artists across all genres with its masterful handling of space, harmony and proportion. Enric Mestre (b.1936) is one of those observers of space and volume who have left their mark on the ceramic sculptural art movement of the 20th century and beyond. As one of the key artists of the Spanish school, his name is mentioned in the same breath as master sculptors Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida. His sculptures come across as sober spatial constructions, but appearances are deceptive: these objects have a poetic force that counters the gaze of the beholder. This book celebrates the master's best creations and is a perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover his timeless work. Text in English and Spanish.
£35.70
Editions Flammarion Shiro Tsujimura
Book SynopsisThis monograph on the life and work of iconoclastic Japanese artist Shiro Tsujimura demonstrates how, in his signature self-taught manner, he has reinvented the classic ceramic art form.Shiro Tsujimura is a vanguard contemporary ceramic artist. While his creations and techniques are deeply rooted in traditional Japanese and Korean styles, his independent streak defines his practice with a sense of freedom, playfulness, and self-confidence that results in decidedly unique works. This monograph takes readers inside his studio and home to discover his artistic practice and lifestyle. Axel Vervoordt, Alexandra Munroe, and longtime friend Hiroshi Sugimoto each contribute a highly personal essay, providing rare insight into this magnetic artist. Tsujimura himself shares his approach to ceramics, deeply linked to both his training as a monk and his fierce independence, which drove him from his spiritual practice to become an artist. Each of his creations is pure and soulful, wh
£56.25
Museum of New Mexico Press Pottery of Acoma Pueblo
Book SynopsisThe pottery of Acoma Pueblo stands at the height of ceramics among the Pueblo Indian pottery traditions. This exhaustively researched book traces the history of Acoma pottery over the past seven hundred years, concentrating on the periods from 1300 to 1930. with a summary of the modern period. The authors studied over several thousand examples, presenting more than 800 examples here, along with dozens of photographs of potters. The book identifies more than nine hundred Acoma potters, several of whom are credited for the first time, who worked between about 1880 to the present. Acoma pottery has evolved significantly in form and decoration over the past seven hundred years, each change reflecting the interplay of many factors, including advances in technology, individual innovations, changing markets, and the evolving uses of pottery vessels. The book is a comprehensive illustrated survey of Acoma pottery at a depth and level of detail that has never before been achieved, and will be t
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Te Papa Press Crafting Aotearoa
Book SynopsisA major new history of craft that spans three centuries of making and thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand and the wider Moana (Pacific). Paying attention to Pakeha (European New Zealanders) , Maori, and island nations of the wider Moana, and old and new migrant makers and their works, this book is a history of craft understood as an idea that shifts and changes over time. At the heart of this book lie the relationships between Pakeha, Maori and wider Moana artistic practices that, at different times and for different reasons, have been described by the term craft. It tells the previously untold story of craft in Aotearoa New Zealand, so that the connections, as well as the differences and tensions, can be identified and explored. This book proposes a new idea of craftone that acknowledges Pakeha, Maori and wider Moana histories of making, as well as diverse community perspectives towards objects and their uses and meanings.Trade Review'Crafting Aotearoa is ambitious, to say the least. Across 460-plus pages it surveys three centuries of craft in New Zealand and the broader Pacific, examining its role in defining cultural identity, and the tensions and transformations that occur as it engages with outside knowledge and practices ... a delight to dip into. For a significant work, it carries its load lightly' - New Zealand Geographic; 'Crafting Aotearoa charts it all, providing an important overview of all things cut and carved, stitched and sewn, hammered and hewn to build a uniquely New Zealand story of cultural change' - Sally Blundell, New Zealand Listener; '... first and foremost an acknowledgement of history as it should be acknowledged: a kind of retelling that is resolved to start a 'dynamic conversation' between Maori, Pakeha and wider Moana Oceania (Pacific) craftspeople and their work ... it's a wellspring of knowledge on what has constituted three centuries of making in New Zealand' - Urbis; 'An indispensable, encyclopaedic and comprehensive reference to three centuries of craft in New Zealand, Crafting Aotearoa manages the difficult task of marshalling the contentious categories of craft, art, folk art, design and indigenous practices in a way that will surely set the standard for future scholarship ... Although there have been sporadic books on craft in Aotearoa before, this is the first of its scope, and for a reference work it is surprisingly readable and not at all bogged down in its scholarship or the ever-volatile politics of craft' - Paul Wood.Table of ContentsContents 8 Introduction 18 Chapter 1 Craft and island nations 23 The Ancestors of the Arts, Tevita 'O Ka'ili 30 No Tangaroa ke tena Marae: Connecting with Oceania, Julie Paama-Pengelly 39 The Exchange of Kula Feathers, Tarisi Vunidilo 43 Pulotu, Hawaiki and Lapita, Hufanga `Okusitino Mahina 48 Chapter 2 Craft on board 57 Cook Samplers, Vivien Caughley 61 Blacksmithing on Guam, Michael Bevacqua 64 The Ancestry of Te Aute, Nikau Gabrielle Hindin 67 An Iconic Collectible, Donald Kerr 78 Chapter 3 Craft and belief 85 Craft and `Civilisation' at the LMS Museum, Chris Wingfield 89 Identifying Early Colonial-made Furniture, William Cottrell 96 The Art of Tuvalu Crochet: Kolose, Marama T-Pole 99 A Victorian Gothic Masterpiece, Ann Calhoun 102 `God in their luggage', Julie Adams 108 Chapter 4 Craft and the authentic 120 Needlework in the New Zealand Education System, Stella Lange 127 St Barnabas' Chapel, Norfolk Island, Ann Calhoun 141 Polynesian Corpuscles: Tracing Cultural Stratification Through Craft, Ioana Gordon-Smith 144 From Furniture Restoration to Faking Taonga, Elizabeth Cotton 148 Makea: Queen of Rarotonga, Preserver of Women's Weaving Traditions, Joanna Cobley 151 The Havelock Work: Craft and the Occult, Georgina White 158 Liberty and Co. in New Zealand, Walter Cook 161 Mary Eleanor Joachim, Bookbinder, Margery Blackman 166 The Women's Section, Moira White 168 Chapter 5 Craft and tourism 177 Souvenirs of the `Eighth Wonder of the World', Richard Wolfe 180 Crafting Kapa Haka, Tryphena Cracknell 190 A Novelty Barometer, Marguerite Hill 198 The Coral Route, Lynette Townsend 200 The Coconut Shell As Art Object, John Perry 207 Maori Culture and the Contemporary Scene, Taarati Taiaroa 211 Fashioning Souvenirs, Elizabeth Wratislav 215 The Geyser Room Experience, Michael Smythe 217 The World Came Knocking, Kevin Murray 220 Chapter 6 Craft and the modern 225 Making Do in Hard Times, Rosemary McLeod 229 `Something to See': Women's Institutes, Claire Regnault 237 Guilds and Societies in Craft Practice, Helen Schamroth 241 Theo Schoon: Bauhaus to Our House, Andrew Paul Wood 245 Joseph Churchward's Handcrafted Typefaces, Safua Akeli Amaama 256 Studio Craft and the Everyday, Moyra Elliott 262 A New Vision for New Zealand Craft, Lucy Hammonds 267 Indigenous Pacific Museums and Cultural Centres, Tarisi Vunidilo 272 Craft and the Hippie Myth, Vic Evans 278 Peter Stichbury and Abuja, Justine Olsen 288 Chapter 7 Craft and belonging 293 The Craft of Punk, Simon Swale 295 The Permanent Crucible, Benjamin Lignel 299 Craft and Conceptual Art, Warren Feeney 301 Bone Stone Shell across the Ditch, Julie Ewington 316 What Planet Do You Come From?, Rosanna Raymond 322 New Zealand Wearable Art and the Craft Conundrum, Natalie Smith 325 Words Were Loaded, Siliga David Setoga 330 Tatau as Craft, Sean Mallon 331 Crafting a Continuum, Ane Tonga 335 Mau Mahara, Philip Clarke 337 The 1983 Tokomaru Bay Weaving Hui, Christina Hurihia Wirihana 344 Pacific Men's Craft in New Zealand, Sean Mallon 346 Chapter 8 Craft in the contemporary 351 Street Craft in a Cracked City, Reuben Woods 355 From Craft Practitioners to Designer-makers, Michael Smythe 358 Crafting Make Believe, Claire Regnault 363 Contemporary Quilting Communities, Jane Groufsky 367 Slow Fashion and Craft Activism, Natalie Smith 369 More Than Just a Cup of Tea, Johnny Hui 373 The Social and Sustainably Crafted Object, Andrea Bell 381 Masi: Wedding Ceremonial Dress Practices in Fiji, Joana Monolagi 386 Performing Measina: Craft in Contemporary Pacific Performance, Lana Lopesi 389 Kowhaiwhai Ceramics, Tharron Bloomfield 394 Our Mothers Were Not Marked, Julia Mage'au Gray 400 He Rauemi Tuturu: Muka in Contemporary New Zealand Jewellery Practice, Tryphena Cracknell 409 Meliors Simms: Agent of Change, Bronwyn Lloyd 416 Casting Shadow, Chasing Light, Lydia Baxendell 422 Notes Further reading More about craft About the editors Contributors Acknowledgements Objects Image credits Index
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Massey University Press Vonney Ball
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Massey University Press The Architect and the Artists
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Cambridge University Press The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Italy
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Cambridge University Press Mosaics in the Medieval World From Late Antiquity
Book SynopsisIn this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide range of issues, including style and iconography, technique and material, and function and patronage, she examines mosaics within their historical context. She asks why the mosaic was such a popular medium and considers how mosaics work as historical 'documents' that tell us about attitudes and beliefs in the medieval world. The book is divided into two part. Part I explores the technical aspects of mosaics, including glass production, labour and materials, and costs. In Part II, James provides a chronological history of mosaics, charting the low and high points of mosaic art up until its abrupt end in the late middle ages. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will serve as an essential resource for scholars and students of medieval mosaics.Trade Review'This fabulous book is a great achievement. The 166 splendid color illustrations (many previously unpublished) alone would make the volume of great value, but James (Univ. of Sussex, UK) also provides a rich scholarly apparatus of footnotes and bibliography and a fine list of all extant mosaics, arranged by period and country. Written with panache, the book wears its erudition lightly and is accessible to a wide readership. Essential.' L. Nees, Choice'This stunning new book will change the way you look at medieval mosaics … The attention to detail and to making this book useable, with indices, lists of sites and bespoke maps, ensure that this will be a much-consulted book for anyone working on the late antique, early medieval and medieval built environment.' Caroline Goodson, Medieval ArchaeologyTable of ContentsPart I. Making Wall Mosaics: Introduction to Part I; 1. Making glass tesserae; 2. Making mosaics; 3. The business of mosaics; 4. The value of mosaics; Part II. Mosaics by Century: Introduction to Part II; 5. In the beginning: wall mosaics in the fourth century; 6. Types or prototypes? Mosaics in the fifth century; 7. Emperors, kings, popes and bishops: mosaics in the sixth century; 8. New beginnings? Islam, Byzantium and Rome: mosaics in the seventh and eighth centuries; 9. Medium and message: ninth- and tenth-century mosaics; 10. A universal language? Eleventh-century mosaics; 11. Incorrigibly plural: mosaics in the twelfth century; 12. Men and mosaics: the thirteenth century; 13. Boom and bust: mosaics in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; Conclusion; Appendix of sites; Bibliography.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Batch Craft Design and Product
Book SynopsisShowcasing international designer-makers in contemporary craft, including ceramics, textiles, wood, glass, precious materials & metals. These designers make small batches of work for retail outlets which are finished to a high standard. The book aims to display their work, from concept to finished product.Trade Review'A&C Black brings us a glamorous look at the world of design makers. Presenting the cream of the contemporary craft world, the book includes a glorious array of handcrafted objects, profiling many of the most important makers and explaining the ideas and concept behind their products, with superb photography to illustrate their work.' Crafts & Design (September 2010)
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Pacific Rainbow 1 Hour Photo
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Goose Lane Editions Peter Powning: A Retrospective / Une
Book SynopsisA CBC New Brunswick Book List Selection"I start with an original object, break it, and transform parts of the piece into other materials. These pieces gather meaning and explanation as I work with them."Peter Powning is simultaneously referred to as a sculptor and a ceramist, but his art does not fit easy categorization, incorporating and combining elements from one medium into another. His work challenges the viewer to reconsider the object, its form, and its function. This inventiveness has resulted in numerous exhibitions, awards, and commissions for public art sculptures throughout Canada.Featuring 175 full-colour images of Powning’s work along with essays by curators and critics, Peter Powning celebrates the career of one of Canada’s finest visual artists and accompanies a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.Trade Review"A pleasure to read, and the perfect coffee table book to showcase inventive New Brunswick art." * [EDIT] *"The book is much more than a usual exhibition catalogue: its bilingual text and images of the work, most photographed by Powning himself, offer a rare, intimate glimpse into a life devoted to the pursuit of a multi-disciplined practice." -- Carol Brueau * Billie *
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Goose Lane Editions Good Earth: The Pots and Passion of Walter Ostrom
Book SynopsisWalter Ostrom has been described as an "innovative traditionalist," a disruptive force shaking up ceramic conventions while simultaneously enriching them. Hired to teach studio and Asian art history at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1969, Ostrom was one of many American artists who moved north to Canada in the fallout from the Vietnam War.Ostrom’s work, from his embrace of conceptual art in the 1970s to his current exploration of the vast history, hybridization, and social foundation of ceramics, marks him as a major force in the development of contemporary ceramics. As Ray Cronin writes, Ostrom’s works "declare themselves to be art and craft at once, tradition and innovation merged, beauty and function reconciled, thought and action combined. What more could one ask from any work of art?"Accompanying a major retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia opening in May 2020, Good Earth features essays by leading scholars and curators along with full-colour reproductions of over fifty examples of Ostrom’s works.Trade Review“This mercurial and brilliant man is difficult to sum up, but Good Earth serves as a worthy introduction to his world.” -- Amy Gogarty * Galleries West magazine *
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V&A Handmade in Britain
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Mutable Ceramic & Clay Art of India
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Pre-Echo Shards
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Oxford University Press Medusas Gaze
Book SynopsisMedusa's Gaze provides the first dedicated account of the origins and extraordinary survival of an exquisite agate bowl from ancient Alexandria to the modern day as it passed through the hands of some of history's most influentional, and colorful, characters.Trade ReviewThe Tazza Farnese's story is remarkable, and Belozerskaya tells it well. * Literary Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt ; 2. Carved Gems and Romans ; 3. Constantinople: the Past Acquired, Revived, and Ransacked ; 4. Frederick II: the Quest for a New Roman Empire ; 5. Timur, the Conqueror of Asia ; 6. The Great Collectors of the Renaissance ; 7. In a Woman's Hands ; 8. Gems and Ruins in Bourbon Naples ; 9. Beauty Broken, Beauty Restored ; Acknowledgments ; Cast of Characters ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Cambridge University Press English Pottery
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Popular American Marbles
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Ancient Maya Pottery Classification Analysis and Interpretation
Book SynopsisThe ancient Maya produced a broad range of ceramics that has attracted concerted scholarly attention for over a century. This impressive volume brings together many of the archaeologists signally involved in the analysis and interpretation of ancient Maya ceramics and represents new findings and state-of-the-art thinking.
£20.66
BAR Publishing La Cermica Protohistrica a Torno de Mallorca s VII aC 770 British Archaeological Reports International Series
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Petey Pie Press Glass Fusing in a Clay Kiln
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Fractalterror Press Project Land Kilns
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LEGARE STREET PR The Photograph and Ambrotype Manual a Practical Treatise
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LEGARE STREET PR The Photograph and Ambrotype Manual a Practical Treatise
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LEGARE STREET PR OEuvres Complètes De Bernard Palissy
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LEGARE STREET PR Rudimentary Treatise On the Art of Painting On Glass From the German
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LEGARE STREET PR Rudimentary Treatise On the Art of Painting On Glass From the German
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LEGARE STREET PR OEuvres Complètes De Bernard Palissy
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LEGARE STREET PR Rudimentary Treatise On The Art Of Painting On Glass
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