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Throughout this book, Glassie provides a vivid, on-the-ground sense of Johnston's evolving work, from journeyman pottery to installation art. His close observations, high-quality photographs, and liberal quotations from interviews offer a rich document of the potter's aesthetic and technical decisions in the context of the Seagrove vernacular tradition and other artistic realms. Glassie concludes his study with further reflections on friendship, fieldwork, and artistic biography. This excellent book will appeal to a range of scholars and general readers with an interest in folklore, material culture, art history, and the American South.

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Table of Contents

1. Beginnings
2. Apprenticeship
3. East and West
4. Building a Shop and Making a Pot
5. Firing
6. Selling
7. New Directions
Afterword
Notes
Oral Sources
Bibliography
Index

Daniel Johnston

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    A Paperback / softback by Henry Glassie

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 3 March 2020
      ISBN-13 9780253048431
      978-0253048431
      ISBN-10 0253048435
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      Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks History of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      Throughout this book, Glassie provides a vivid, on-the-ground sense of Johnston's evolving work, from journeyman pottery to installation art. His close observations, high-quality photographs, and liberal quotations from interviews offer a rich document of the potter's aesthetic and technical decisions in the context of the Seagrove vernacular tradition and other artistic realms. Glassie concludes his study with further reflections on friendship, fieldwork, and artistic biography. This excellent book will appeal to a range of scholars and general readers with an interest in folklore, material culture, art history, and the American South.

      * Journal of Folklore Research *

      Table of Contents

      1. Beginnings
      2. Apprenticeship
      3. East and West
      4. Building a Shop and Making a Pot
      5. Firing
      6. Selling
      7. New Directions
      Afterword
      Notes
      Oral Sources
      Bibliography
      Index

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