Synopses & Reviews
In this inspirational guide, a master ceramist offers practical information about pottery making along with insights into the craft's meaning, history, and spirit. Author Daniel Rhodes incorporates both traditional and innovative techniques in his approach. His subjects include basic forms for jars, vases, bowls, and pitchers; techniques for wedging and kneading, throwing, and making handles; wheel-made pieces; modeling, coiling, and slab building; as well as historical views, including extinct forms and pottery as image and symbol.
Experienced potters and novices alike will appreciate this richly illustrated volume, which features more than 170 illustrations and photos.
Synopsis
A master ceramist and internationally known teacher offers practical information about pottery making as well as insights into the craft's meaning, history, and spirit. Featuring more than 170 photographs, this volume describes and depicts basic forms and their creation using the potter's wheel as well as by modeling, coiling, and slab building.
Synopsis
Internationally renowned teacher and artisan offers practical information about the processes of pottery making as well as insights into the meaning, history, and spirit of pottery forms. 177 black-and-white illustrations.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Dover EditionPreface1. Form2. Wedging & Kneading3. Centering4. Hollowing Out5. The Cylinder6. Form Characteristics of Wheel-Made Pottery7. Cylindrical Forms8. Tools for Throwing9. Jars and Vases10. Bottles11. Trimming & Feet12. Throwing Off the Hump & Duplicate Forms13. Bowls14. Pitchers15. Handles16. Plates17. Large Pots18. Pots with Lids19. Cups, Tea Bowls, & Mugs20. Teapots21. Altering & Combining Thrown Forms22. Hand Built Pottery23. Forms Made By Compression & Draping24. Some Extinct Pottery Forms25. Clay & Glazes26. Decoration27. Approaches to Study28. Pottery as Image & Symbol29. Pottery & the PersonIndex