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The subject of ceramics is steeped in history and tradition. For thousands of years humans have exploited the versatile qualities of clay as a material to produce items ranging from humble utilitarian vessels, right through to exquisite works of art. Louisa Taylor explores this diverse discipline by showcasing 100 of the most innovative and inspiring artists past and present, analysing the techniques and methods used to create the works, and the concepts which underpin their creative process. The book shows how to recreate intricate still-life dioramas like fifteenth-century artist Bernard Palissy, explore narrative like Grayson Perry and convey sensitivity to material like Phoebe Cummings.
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Ceramics Masterclass
Louisa Taylor
Softcover, 288 pages
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Carve Your Clay takes you through creative techniques that produce amazing, dynamic results, including inlay, piercing, sgraffito, etching, relief carving, wire cutting, and more. Gain new skills as you complete 20 projects featuring author Hilda Carr's signature style, each with clear step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow instruction to achieve beautiful results.
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Carve Your Clay
Hilda Carr
Hardcover, 144 pages
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In Handmade Tile, Forrest Lesch-Middelton shares
everything he's learned as the founder and owner of the custom tile
business FLM Ceramics and Tile. From his years as a one-man
operation to his current production facility, Forrest has seen it
all and helps you every step of the way. Whether you want to make
your own tile, or want to use artistic and custom-made tile in your
home, this book has everything you need.
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Handmade Tile
Forrest Lesch-Middelton
Hardcover, 208 pages
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$28.00
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In Working with Porcelain, you'll discover the ins
and outs of using porcelain. Compiled from the Ceramics Monthly and
Pottery Making Illustrated archives, along with helpful insights and
notes from renowned porcelain artist Antoinette Badenhorst, you'll
learn about porcelain's distinctive qualities and how to
successfully create with this always beautiful, but often
temperamental clay body.
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Working with Porcelain
Softcover, 122 pages
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Ceramic artists are some of the most inventive people
around, and 100 Tips, Tools, & Techniques is a testament to their
ingenuity. Compiled from the Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making
Illustrated archives, this book features some of the best tips and
tools developed by fellow ceramic artists.
You'll discover how to easily reclaim clay, build custom
ceramics tools, glaze using unconventional techniques, and much
more! Each tip is jam-packed with helpful information from
professionals and hobbyists that have been working with clay for
many years. With these 100 tips and tricks, you'll improve your
efficiency AND proficiency in the studio. |
100 Tips, Tools, & Techniques for the Ceramic Studio
Softcover, 170 pages
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Handmade pots find homes in various places around the
house. From the vase in the living room that holds fresh-cut garden
blooms, to canisters in the pantry, to the cookie jar on the kitchen
counter, to the whiskey bottle or flask in the liquor cabinet, they
add a personal touch to our environment. Part of the Ceramic Arts
Select Series.
In Jars, Vases, Boxes, and Baskets, you'll find nineteen
step-by-step projects that demonstrate the wide range of
possibilities open to artists interested in exploring these forms
using both handbuilding and wheel-throwing techniques. You’ll
learn how to dart and divide thrown forms to make vases, baskets,
and jars alike. |
Jars, Vases, Boxes and Baskets
Softcover, 87 pages
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Every potter has certain common forms in their repertoire-think
bowls and mugs. But the kitchen is home to various less-common
pots-from muffin pans and juicers, to batter bowls and salt
shakers-that are great fun for the potter to investigate. Showcases
pots used for prepping, cooking, and presenting food.
In Kitchen Pots, Bakers & Serving Vessels, you'll find nineteen
easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects. The artists share not only
the process, but also the functional considerations taken in the
planning stages. |
Kitchen Pots, Bakers, and Serving Vessels
Softcover, 90 pages
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In Making and Using Molds & Templates, you'll find 23 step-by-step
projects that demonstrate a variety of traditional and
non-traditional techniques for building and using molds and
templates in the ceramics studio. You'll learn how to cast
traditional plaster molds, build custom wood and foam molds, learn
how to design craft foam and tar-paper templates, and much more! |
Making
and Using Molds and Templates
Softcover, 92 pages
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Ceramic artists are some of the most inventive people around, and
100 Tips, Tools, & Techniques is a testament to their ingenuity.
Compiled from the Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated
archives, this book features some of the best tips and tools
developed by fellow ceramic artists. |
100
Tips, Tools, & Techniques for the Ceramics Studio
Softcover, 170 pages
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$28.98
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Handmade pots and home-cooked meals go hand in hand and it is not
surprising that many potters also happen to be foodies. So we
decided to put together another book that combines food and pots, a
follow up to Sumi von Dassow's popular book In the Potters Kitchen.
Clay & Cuisine brings together handmade pots with home-cooked meals
to satisfy both passions. |
Clay &
Cuisine - Techniques for the Studio, Recipes for the Kitchen
Paperback, 172 pages
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Do you even know any potters who don't cook? Wouldn't it be great if
there were a pottery design, technique, and glaze recipe book put
together with a food recipe book? Well now there is, and it comes
from the extensive research and passion of veteran author Sumi von
Dassow. Each chapter includes an overview of the type of ware being
discussed, design considerations, projects for making pots, and of
course, recipes to cook in them! |
In the
Potter's Kitchen - Handmade Pots for Home-Cooked Recipes
Paperback, 168 pages
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Robert Piepenburg gives ceramists a beneficial guide for cultivating
their creativeness with clay. As you'll discover in the pages, when
ceramic works of art celebrate the expressions of spirit
and personify core design concepts, they
embrace a heightened realization of meaning
that is personally empowering and universally inspiring. |
The
Spirit of Ceramic
Design - Cultivating
Creativity with Clay
Paperback, 253 pages
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Printing has become a common
part of the
ceramic artist's practice. From low-tech
monoprints to digital laser decals, it is now possible to employ a
range of techniques to print on clay and vitreous surfaces. With the
ongoing advancement of new technologies and studio-based transfer
processes, artists continue to push the boundaries of the medium.
Ceramics and
Print presents the latest developments in this increasingly popular
synthesis of media.
Author Paul Scott was one of the first
contemporary artists to experiment with print and clay. In this
comprehensive update of his groundbreaking book, he explains the
historical context for contemporary printed ceramics.
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Ceramics and Print
Paul Scott
Paperback, 144 pages
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People have carved figures in clay since prehistoric
times—so what can artists bring to the tradition that's
distinctive? This breathtaking collection answers that question 500
ways with works by new and emerging ceramicists that chronicle the
ongoing exploration of the human form. From rustic creations to
postmodern designs, from realistic to abstract, these pieces embody
the diversity, imagination, and excellence of today's finest ceramic
art. |
500
Figures in Clay Volume 2
Paperback, 419 pages
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The breathtaking 500
Teapots launched
a bestselling series?and it remains hugely popular. Now comes a
gorgeous follow-up that documents the continued vitality of the form
and of a new group of top international artists. Ranging from
classically beautiful to wonderfully witty to wildly imaginative and
ultramodern, these teapots will inspire ceramicists, collectors,
crafters, and enthusiasts. |
500
Teapots Volume 2
Paperback, 419 pages
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This breathtaking entry in the highly successful 500
Ceramics series
ventures into the hottest area of modern ceramics: image transfer on
clay. Juried by the renowned artist and teacher Paul Andrew Wandless,
it showcases a visually intriguing collection of contemporary work
in this rapidly evolving field. The featured pieces include
silkscreen; newspaper, tissue, and digital ink transfer; stencils
and more, printed on everything from earthenware and porcelain to
stoneware and vitreous china. |
500 Prints on Clay
Paperback, color,
420 pages
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From press-molded pieces to carved works showcasing
spectacular surface treatments, these magnificent tiles will inspire
beginners and professionals, as well as collectors and enthusiasts.
Some of the larger handcrafted displays here were made to decorate
public and private spaces; others use single tiles to interpret
nature, tell a story, or make a bold cultural observation. As always
in this acclaimed series, all the contributors are accomplished
artists, renowned in the field. |
500
Tiles
Paperback, color,
420 pages
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For potters, mold making is invaluable because it
allows them to slip-cast identical multiples of their work?and this
newly revised, now in color edition of Andrew Martin?s classic is the definitive
guide to the craft. No other volume has shown the processes in such
how-to detail. It?s overflowing with hundreds of photos, key
techniques, projects, master artist profiles, and troubleshooting
tips. A thorough introduction addresses materials and tools, and
presents Martin?s simple, unique template method for making clay
prototypes. Create easy one-piece molds to make tiles, bowls, and
platters, or multi-piece molds for more complex forms. An extensive
overview covers slip formulation, while offering highly desired slip
recipes for low-, mid-, and high-fire clay bodies.
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The Essential Guide
to Mold Making & Slip Casting
- Andrew Martin
- Hardcover, 159
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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. |
Contemporary
Tableware
- Linda
Bloomfield
- Softcover, 144 pages
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Functional Pottery has
been used by potters around the world and in a great many colleges
and universities as required reading. It?s a book of personal
development in the design, making, and aesthetics of ceramics
objects for use, based on more than 40 years of practical
experience. This book includes images of work by potters from around
the world working with functional pottery. It also includes a wide
range of illustrations of objects drawn from many of the world?s
major museums. Not only is this book the most informative written on
the subject of functional pottery and its design and aesthetic, but
the illustrations of both historical and contemporary objects put
the equivalent of a museum and art gallery at your fingertips. |
Functional Pottery
- Robin Hopper
- Softcover, 256 pages
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This is both a practical and beautiful approach to
the teapot. As well as covering the essential making methods such as
throwing, slab-building, press-moulding, slipcasting and more, it
also looks at the aesthetic and functional aspects of teapot design.
A large part of the book will look at artists and their work -
covering both functional and non-functional teapots. The final
chapter will also be a gallery of teapots, making this a useful
asset for the contemporary collector. This is a fantastic book, that
will capture the imagination of makers, collectors, and all other
fans of the teapot. |
The Teapot Book
- Steve Woodhead
- Hardcover, 160 pages
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Masters: Earthenware reveals the
tremendous imagination, innovation, and technical facility that
today's artists bring to the oldest ceramic medium. Curated by
Matthias Ostermann, a celebrated ceramist in his own right, this
stunning volume gives each featured artist a mini-retrospective of
approximately eight pages that showcase 12-14 of his or her best
works. Illuminating comments from the creators accompany the images,
outlining their development and artistic philosophy. |
Masters: Earthenware
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Forty internationally celebrated masters reveal their
secrets, explaining just how they work with this incredibly
demanding ceramic material, prized for its pristine beauty. Pure
white and wonderfully delicate, porcelain is what clay potters
usually graduate to only after years of honing their skills. This
diverse collection showcases the results of that dedication, and the
versatility is simply breathtaking. |
Masters: Porcelain
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Classic North
Carolina stoneware pots-with their rich textures, monochromatic
glazes, and minimal decoration-belong to one of America's most
revered stoneware pottery traditions. With hundreds of color
photographs highlighting the shapes and surfaces of carefully
selected pots, The Potter's Eye honors the keen focus vernacular
potters bring to their materials, tools, techniques, and history. It
is an evocative guide for anyone interested in the aesthetic majesty
of this resilient and long-standing tradition. |
The Potter's Eye
- Mark Hewitt &
Nancy Sweezy
- Hardcover, 296
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No kiln? No
wheel? No problem!
With accessible and easy-to-find air-dry clay, you can easily make
beautiful trinkets, jewelry, and other decorative items. This
colorful how-to guide covers all the basic techniques including
pinching, coiling, creating slabs, making sprigs, decorating
surfaces, and sealing and finishing as well as a variety of pretty
and simple projects. Choose from customized gift box adornments,
elegant feather tags, festive hanging stars and snowflakes,
impressed trinket dishes, a miniature mirror, sculptures, planters,
pea pod bowls, and rings, necklaces, bracelets, and brooches |
Make It in Air-Dry Clay
- Fay De Winter
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Softcover, 112 pages
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