Judge Deborah Knott travels to the countryside of the North Carolina Piedmont to mediate a divorce, but when the husband, potter James Nordan, is killed, she finds herself pursuing a murderer instead.
Nobel Prize-winning writer José Saramago creates a gentle and humorous story about an elderly potter, his daughter and son-in-law, the young widow who comes to live with them--and a dog. What begins with ceramic doll figures and some mysterious digging noises at their apartment building leads eventually to an unexpected upheaval in the lives of ...
Originally published in 1945 and now reissued with a new introduction by the author, Jade Snow Wong's story is one of struggle and achievements. These memoirs of the author's first 24 years are thoughtful, informative, and highly entertaining. They not only portray a young woman and her unique family in San Francisco's Chinatown, but they are rich ...
Beatrice Woods' life was extraordinary in every way, from earliest childhood, when her dominating Victorian mother realized she "wasn't like the rest of them," to her productive life in old age in California's Ojai Valley, where she lived and worked until her death in 1998 at the age of 105. Rebellious, radical and romantic, Wood was determined to ...
Beatrice Wood turned to ceramics late in life at age 40, but still managed to work behind a potter's wheel for nearly 65 years. Influenced by the Dada movement, her lusterware pottery, with its rich and decadent palette of shimmering gold and silver, vindian greens, incandescent pinks, and intense purples, has captivated generations of collectors. ...
Clarice Cliff was Britain's premier Art Deco potter and designer, and her hand-painted Bizarre ware is collected worldwide. This volume displays Cliff's bold, bright, geometric designs, revealing their distinctive style, and includes text recounting the fascinating story of her life and career.
After a building inspector is found drowned in a bucket of liquid clay slip, potter Carolyn Emerson's husband Bill is the prime suspect. It's up to Carolyn to clear his name and not let the real killer give her the slip. Includes clay crafting tips. Original.
After the body of a new potter with a mysterious past is found in Carolyn Emerson's raku firing pit, she calls upon her studio's pottery club, The Firing Squad, to dig up evidence and crack the case. Includes directions for a pottery project. Original.
With its familiar white classical figures against a pale-blue background, Wedgwood has been one of the most recognizable brand names in the world for more than 200 years. Dolan presents this portrait of Josiah Wedgwood, and his innovations to labor that continue today.
Nampeyo, the famous Hopi-Tewa potter (1860-1942), is known for the grace and beauty of her work, but very little accurate information has been available about her life. Romantic myths, cultural misunderstandings, and outright distortions have obscured both Nampeyo the artist and the person. Based on an exhaustive search of first-person accounts, ...
When he went to West Africa in the 1940s, Michael Cardew found himself 'in a land where the potter's art had been flourishing for centuries without the use of wheels, or kilns, or glazes'. This book grew out of his desire to share all that he had learned from the African pioneers of pottery.
Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743) is Japan's most famous ceramic artist, and his work has had a far-reaching influence on the art of pottery, not only in Japan but, through Bernard Leach and his followers, the West as well. With his brother, the painter Korin, Kenzan was a member of the cultivated elite circle that transformed the world of Japanese design ...
The universal dream of doing work you love and earning a living at it forms the heart of this new edition of a book that has become a favorite of many potters. This fresh account updates by 25 years the classic story of Tom and Elaine Coleman and their struggles to create a successful, loving marriage and family while master potter Tom seeks to ...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This works proposes that a women's tradition in ceramics is one in which pottery making is a gendered activity intimately connected with female identity. The knowledge is passed down from one generation to the next. It guides the reader through these traditions continent by continent. Different areas are illustrated with beautiful, detailed maps ...
The book, originally published in 1904, includes the marks used by factories, patterns, workmen, or decorators in America to the time of this book's original printing. The first attempt to describe the marks of American potters was made by Edwin Barber in his Pottery and Porcelain of the United States in 1893. In that book, less than 100 varieties ...
In a series of essays and superb images, this gloriously illustrated book discusses and illustrates the whole spectrum of Finnish ceramic art - its pioneers, personalities, techniques and distinctive works. From late-nineteenth-century masters, through internationally recognized designers of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, to emerging talents in the ...
Raised in Clay is a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in America. Focusing on more than thirty potters in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Kentucky, Nancy Sweezy tells how families preserve and practice the traditional art of pottery making today. First published in ...
Margaret Tafoya's paramount place in the evolution of Tewa Pueblo pottery in Santa Clara, New Mexico, includes a history of the Pueblo people, Margaret Tafoya's life, Santa Clara pottery-making techniques, and the Tafoya family and descendants. She has adhered to the traditions of her pueblo, and demonstrates the very best in Tewa Pueblo pottery.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This monograph, on one of America's most significant ceramic artists, presents a complete account of Turner's rise during the art pottery movement of the 1960s, through to his celebrated, radical sculptural work of today.
This special pottery combines the traditions of Pueblo and Navajo artists from Arizona and New Mexico with daring new interpretaions by the modern generation. Bowls, plates ollas, pitchers, and vases by potters in Acoma, Hopi, Jemez, Navajo, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Ana, Zia, and Zuni families are featured along with storytellers ...
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