Ceramics: Artworks

When words are bereft of their power and meaning, art is able to communicate in its stead. It has its own means of visualizing multiplicity, commen...

This is the first book on the American sculptor and ceramist Mary Tuthill Lindheim (1912- 2004) who, with contemporaries Edith Heath, Peter Voulkos...

The first book to honor the contributions, presence, and experiences of Black artists who are part of the contemporary clay community! Readers...

By extending the state vault of his secret depository in the west wing of Dresdens Residential Palace between 1723 and 1729, Augustus the Strong, E...

Explore the history of crystalline glazes and the various aspects of their production in this updated second edition. This book describes suitable...

The use of wax, paper, clay and other materials to prevent the effects of heat, fire, smoke, chemical reactions, colours and glazes from altering...

This beautifully designed and illustrated book celebrates the career of Jonathan Horne FSA, international authority on English pottery and for fort...

Powdered tobacco, originally used in Europe as a medicine, became a fashionable  stimulant in high society during the eighteenth century. Precious ...

The works in porcelain and colourful shades of stoneware by Doris Banks might be modest and reduced in form, colour, and decoration yet they still ...

An in-depth look at the dynamic cultural world of tea in Japan during its formative period Around Chigusa investigates the cultural and artistic m...

This is the first catalogue of the collection of early modern ceramics in the Courtauld. The pieces in the collection showcase brilliantly the skil...

Brittle Beauty presents a superlative private collection of European porcelain radical, rare and in many cases unique pieces assembled over thirty...

This innovative book narrates the history of a single objecta tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth ce...

Spectators at the sides of narrative vase paintings have long been at the margins of scholarship, but a study of their appearance shows that they p...

'Lotte has told me that she is an insomniac, and at night she lies excitedly thinking of Loch Eribol, which is down-croft from her unslept in sleep...

The technique of soda glazing in ceramics is becoming more popular with potters, because, like salt glazing, it produces an attractive orange-peel ...

In the 1950s, a large number of internationally renowned artists created pictures made of ceramic. In 1956, in close collaboration with the artist ...

For over 25,000 years, humans across the globe have shaped, decorated, and fired clay. Despite great differences in location and time, universal th...

Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. ...

'I have tried to formulate a criterion by which good pots may be judged . . . a pot in order to be good should be a genuine expression of life. It ...

Miquel Barceló is one of the most interesting artists active today. For over 40 years, his poetics has embodied different languages such as paint...