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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63813 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781600592751
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource
This is a great overall book on ceramics. It covers a variety of work,methods of making and technique. I love being able to read about an artists thoughts on their own work and then to be able to see how they work is inspiring.

This is a true 'master class' in ceramics and may help you add dimension to your own work. I was particularly inspired by the work of Michael Sherrill his methods have me thinking about clay in a whole new way.

Another Fabulous Book From Lark
This book shares a lot of elements with Lark's other showcase book, The Figure in Clay: Contemporary Sculpting Tehniques by Master Artists (A Lark Ceramics Book). In the latter, we have innovative artists sharing their philosophies and some methodologies; and between chapters, there are galleries with a broad spectrum of work. And so it goes with this book, with some notable differences. The range of the type of work is much greater:

There's a gal who does freeform handbuilt pottery;
there's a guy who does the funky sculpture on the cover using an extruder to make forms supported by trapped air that he then carves and assembles;
there's a gal who does huge tall work on the wheel;
another does tile work;
a guy who does textural stuff with glazes and underglazes on handbuilt ware;
another assembles sculptural ware from slip-cast shapes;
there's a figurative guy who does intricate graphics work on his pieces; and
another who forms large torso reliefs from slabs.

The working methods are presented in a more uniform step-by-step format than in the Figure in Clay, hence the Master Classes subtitle. Some artists present fairly detailed explanations; some rely more on the photos to show what's going on. Most of the artists present more simple projects than they would ordinarily produce; but there is a lot of good information for the reader all the same. The techniques in this book are generally more advancced. It's not a beginner's workbook; but it doesn't hurt to see all these neato-keen ways of working and either be inspired or sock away the knowledge for later. I would recommend this book for anyone trying to expand his or her horizons in clay.

a great addition to my collection
This book is packed with wonderful information for anyone interested in works of clay. Lark books are known for wonderful pictures and this one is no exception. But more than just pictures this one is full of information about building, glazing and many clay techniques- this may be one I might need 2 copies of, 1 for me and 1 for the class- (some pictues are not for my ms students- I'll need to do something about that)