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Ceramics / Philip Rawson.
LIBRA NK4225 .R3 1984
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rawson, Philip, 1924-1995.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pottery.
- Porcelain.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.
- Summary:
- "It is rare to find a book on art that presents complex aesthetic principles in clear readable form. "Ceramics," by Philip Rawson, is such a book. I discovered it ten years ago, and today my well-worn copy has scarcely a page on which some statement is not underlined and starred."--Wayne Higby, from the Foreword
- Contents:
- Part 1 General Considerations 1
- The Existential Base 3
- The Role of Technology 10
- Memory-Traces and Meaning 15
- Tactile Values 19
- Part 2 Techniques 23
- The Material 23
- Forming: General 28
- Hand-Modelling and Beating 29
- Burnishing 33
- Wheel-Throwing 34
- Moulding 40
- Cutting, etc. 44
- Turning 45
- Drying 46
- Firing 47
- Kilns 50
- Slips and Glazes 52
- Part 3 Symbolism of Form 64
- Ceramics as Treasure 64
- Life Functions 69
- Imitation 72
- Ceremonial 77
- Tactile Order 82
- Tactile Texture 85
- Other Sense Dimensions 87
- Visual Shape 91
- Morphology 92
- Body Images 100
- The Expression of Ceramic Shape 103
- Articulation of Units of Shape 115
- The Modes of Space 118
- Shape Criteria 121
- Colour: General 127
- Colour and Gloss 133
- Individual Colours 135
- Black 135
- White 137
- Blue: and Complementary After-Images 139
- Blue-Green and Green: Complex Colours 142
- Yellows 145
- Reds 146
- Lustre 150
- Surface Design: General 151
- Graphic Emblems 158
- Floral Decoration 167
- Rhythm in Decoration 170
- Pictorial Designs 172
- Frieze Depth 174
- Perspective Pictorialism 178
- Far Eastern Pictorial Space 183
- Pot Surface and Actual Space 187
- Metaphor and Conceit 188
- Ceramics and Total Environment 191
- Potter's Space 192
- Ceramic Sculpture 196
- Far Eastern Ceramic Sculpture 197
- Ceramic Sculpture and Imaginary Worlds 198
- Sculpture in Clay 204
- Selected List of American Ceramic Artists / Helen Williams Drutt 213.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1971. (The Appreciation of the arts ; 6).
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0812211561
- OCLC:
- 9684893
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