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Recommended Reading List & Selected Bibliography Southern Folk Pottery:
This text outlines the history of
Georgia's eight major pottery-producing centers and provides genealogies
of the pottery making families. Additionally, it offers detailed
explanations of the turning, glazing, and firing processes of the
folk potteries in the State and provides the characteristics of
the wares.
This book offers ethnographic insight
into the life and customs of "Southern Folk" within the
Appalachian region of the United States. This text offers detailed
information concerning the making of southern folk pottery; face
jugs, churns and roosters, homemade pug mills, ash glazes and the
ubiquitous groundhog kiln. A must for anyone interested in authentically
replicating the traditional pottery of the South.
Great
and Noble Jar: Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina. by
Cinda K. Baldwin I
Made This Jar: The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American
Potter, Dave Originally published in 1998, in
conjunction with the "I made this jar..." exhibition at
the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina Museum
in Columbia, this book offers a collection of essays by various
experts that reveal information about the life and work of this
enigmatic and remarkable African-American slave potter, known only
as "Dave". He is best remembered for the poems he inscribed
on the surfaces of large alkaline glazed storage jars produced in
the Edgefield District of South Carolina from 1820 to 1863. Pottery
Technical Information (Western Culture): Ash Glazes
by Phil Rogers A very informative technical book
on the ash glazing process, including chemical analysis of various
tree ashes, substitute formulas. The work offered as examples is
professionally executed and well photographed. This book offers
a solid introduction into ash glazed stoneware. Wood-Fired
Stoneware and Porcelain by
Jack Troy Out
of the Earth, into the Fire: A Course in Ceramic Materials for the
Studio Potter Pioneer
Pottery by
Michael Cardew & Seth Cardew Midwest Book Review The
Kiln Book: Materials, Specifications & Construction by
Frederick L. Olsen Pottery
Technical Information (Eastern Culture): Inside
Japanese Ceramics: A Primer of Materials, Techniques, and Traditions
Midwest Book Review Eastern/Western
Philosophy: This short book calls us as Americans
to reconsider our ideals of perfection. Additionally, it is helpful
in expanding the readers understanding of the "art of the imperfect."
Most importantly, it offers opportunities for the artists/potters
to discover new sources of inspiration in the world. Book Description This is the veritable "bible"
for Mingei influenced potters everywhere. In this book Yanagi's
outlines the importance of "art for the people, by the people"
and provides examples from Japanese, Chinese and Korean folk culture.
Further defined are Yanagi's concepts of beauty, craftsmanship,
anti-bourgeois art and the contributions to egoless, anonymous craftsperson.
As an antithetical to much of what was established in American Art
during the two decades, this text is must for anyone creating pottery
influenced by the Eastern folk functional tradition or otherwise
seeking "truth" to the materials in artmaking. Potters
Book by Bernard
Leach The Potter's
Art (Material Culture) by
Henry Glassie This is my number one recommendation
for those familiar with the idea outlined in the The Unknown
Craftsman and Leach's Potter Book. I believe
that Henry Glassie holds the key to unlocking the future of contemporary
thought regarding working with craft materials in industrial, technology
rich age. His parallel those of mingei and the philosophies of William
Morris and Seotsu Yanagi. <click
here for an online review> Ceramic
Historical (Eastern Culture): Hamada
Potter by Bernard
Leach, et al Ceramic
Historical (Western Culture):
Description:
Art
Making and Theory:
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