Claudi Casanovas

Download or read book Claudi Casanovas written by Tony Birks and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Ceramics Art Monograph from Marston House Claudi Casanovas is Europe's leading sculptural potter, and his work will be exhibiting in the National Art Galleries of five countries, including New York, during 1997. He works on a large scale using revolutionary ceramic techniques which are fully described in this new book about the man and his work. Author Tony Birks is the official biographer of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, and is himself a widely respected teacher of ceramics and the author of The Complete Potter's Companion. He has produced this book in close collaboration with Casanovas, who is a personal friend. Fourth title in a new series which, at a reasonable price, encourages potters and collectors to collect all the titles in the series. Previous titles were Gabriele Koch, Nicholas Homoky and Ewen Henderson. In full colour, featuring 25 full page colour photographs. Casanovas exhibitions at Galerie Besson, London in 1996, Dusseldorf in 1996, New York, Hamburg and Dunkerque in 1997, all of which attracted publicity and public awareness of the artist's name.

Download or read book The Persistence of Craft written by Paul Greenhalgh and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Persistence of Craft, contributors discuss the development of not only six specific crafts--glass, ceramics, jewelry, wood, textiles, and metal--but also the trends and movements that have helped shape their developments. Includes 180 full-color illustrations.

Download or read book The Ceramic Surface written by Matthias Ostermann and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceramic arts.

Download or read book The Craft and Art of Clay written by Susan Peterson and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely considered to be the most comprehensive introduction to ceramics available, this book contains numerous step-by-step illustrations of various ceramic techniques to guide the beginner as well as inspirational ceramic pieces from contemporary potters from around the world. For the more experienced ceramist, there is a wealth of technical detail on things like glaze formulas and temperature conversions which make the book an ideal reference. To quote one review: ...I am a studio potter and would not be without it. The fourth edition has been updated to include profiles of key ceramists who have influenced the field, new material on marketing ceramics including using the internet, more on the use of computers, added coverage of paperclays, using gold and alternative glazes.

Download or read book Ten Thousand Years of Pottery written by Emmanuel Cooper and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The finest history of pottery available, this book offers an inspirational journey through one of the oldest and most widespread of human activities.

Download or read book Naked Clay written by Jane Perryman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well illustrated guide to finishing ceramic work without using a glaze.

Download or read book Ceramic, Art and Civilisation written by Paul Greenhalgh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millennia. Indeed, the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society. This fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Romans and the medieval world; Islamic ceramic cultures and their influence on the Italian Renaissance; Chinese and European porcelain production; modernity and Art Nouveau; the rise of the studio potter, Art Deco, International Style and Mid-Century Modern, and finally, the contemporary explosion of ceramic making and the postmodern potter. Interwoven in this journey through time and place is the story of the pots themselves, the culture of the ceramics, and their character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually every country and historical period, and have worked as a commodity servicing every social class. They are omnipresent: a ubiquitous art. Ceramic culture is a clear, unique, definable thing, and has an internal logic that holds it together through millennia. Hence ceramics is the most peculiar and extraordinary of all the arts. At once cheap, expensive, elite, plebeian, high-tech, low-tech, exotic, eccentric, comic, tragic, spiritual, and secular, it has revealed itself to be as fluid as the mud it is made from. Ceramics are the very stuff of how civilized life was, and is, led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects.