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A potter's workbook / Clary Illian ; photographs by Charles Metzger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Illian, Clary, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pottery--Design.
- Pottery.
- Pottery--Technique.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (125 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In A Potter's Workbook, renowned studio potter and teacher Clary Illian presents a textbook for the hand and the mind. Her aim is to provide a way to see, to make, and to think about the forms of wheel-thrown vessels; her information and inspiration explain both the mechanics of throwing and finishing pots made simply on the wheel and the principles of truth and beauty arising from that traditional method.Each chapter begins with a series of exercises that introduce the principles of good form and good forming for pitchers, bowls, cylinders, lids, handles, and eve
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Truth to Process; Wondrous; The Space Within; Beginnings and Endings; Cylinders as Pots; Pitchers; Bowls; Pots with Lids; Learning to See; Style and Voice; Utility and Tradition; Place; Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [111]-112).
- ISBN:
- 9781587299964
- 1587299968
- OCLC:
- 801413521
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