Visual Arts

Tracing the artistic development of renowned potter Toshiko Takaezu, this masterful study celebrates and analyzes an artist who holds a significant place in the post-World War II craft movement in America. Born in Hawaii of Japanese descent in 1922, Takaezu has worked actively in clay, fiber, and bronze for over sixty years. Influenced by midcentury modernism, her work has transformed from functional vessels to abstract sculptural forms and installations.

For over 25,000 years, humans across the globe have shaped, decorated, and fired clay. Despite great differences in location and time, universal themes appear in the world's ceramic traditions, including religious influences, human and animal representations, and mortuary pottery. In Global Clay: Themes in World Ceramic Traditions, noted pottery scholar John A. Burrison explores the recurring artistic themes that tie humanity together, explaining how and why those themes appear again and again in worldwide ceramic traditions.

CERAMIC ART: Innovative Techniques: More than 20 artists share their techniques and their stories proving that clay has no limits. From using credit cards as extruder dies to coating a wedding dress with slip, there are no rules. With dozens of creative techniques and scores of innovative tips, this book provides endless ideas and inspiration for any ceramic artist.

This eBook presents the recycling of biomass ashes in the obtaining of clay bricks, the use of nanostructured ceramics for the control of heat flows, analytical modelling of thermal stresses in a multi-particle-matrix & stresses which originate during a cooling process of an elastic solid continuum, and provides recent information on the use of zirconia in dentistry.

This ebook presents the work of 30 contemporary artists who have turned to clay to shape their most innovative ideas into stunning works of art. From cups shaped like crystals to a tree trunk made of porcelain and stoneware planters painted to look like ladies, popular curator and blogger Kate Singleton collects here whimsical pieces with narrative, graphic, curious, and organic qualities that blur the line between fine art, design, and craft. Ceramics is a vital guide to an evolving medium and for those interested in the future of art and craft.