The Art of Pottery: 7 Classic Books on the Craft of Pottery
Seven Classic Studies of Ceramic Craft, Ancient Traditions, and Cultural MeaningBy Gisela M. A. Richter, Michael J. Harner, A. L. Kroeber, Unknown, C. Malcolm Watkins, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Carl E. Guthe, Mary White
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The Art of Pottery gathers seven classic texts that approach ceramics as both practiced craft and cultural record. Moving between technical observation, archaeological description, museum scholarship, and ethnographic interpretation, the volume reveals pottery's capacity to preserve habits of making, systems of ornament, ritual meaning, and artistic invention. Studies of Indigenous ceramic traditions sit alongside broader reflections on form and workmanship, while detailed attention to vessels, surfaces, firing, and decoration makes the collection valuable to readers interested in both objects and ideas. Its contributors represent intersecting traditions of art history, anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, and material-culture study. Gisela M. A. Richter's connoisseurial perspective, A. L. Kroeber's anthropological concerns, Michael J. Harner's ethnographic interests, and the museum- and field-based work associated with C. Malcolm Watkins, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Carl E. Guthe, and Mary White bring distinct methods to a shared subject. Together, these voices reflect the formative scholarly movements through which pottery became legible as evidence of aesthetic, social, and historical life. This volume is recommended for ceramicists, students, historians, and collectors seeking a richly comparative introduction to pottery. Its varied styles invite readers to test practical knowledge against cultural interpretation, and to appreciate how individual vessels participate in larger histories of craft, exchange, identity, and art.
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Table of contents
1A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth
2A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth
3ILLUSTRATIONS.
4EVOLUTION OF FORMS.
5EVOLUTION OF DECORATION
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6Pueblo Pottery Making: A Study at the Village of San Ildefonso
7Pueblo pottery making: a study at the village of San Ildefonso
8INTRODUCTION
9PUEBLO POTTERY MAKING
10PARAPHERNALIA
11SUN-DRYING
12SLIPPING AND POLISHING
13FIRING
14SYMBOLISM[52]
15North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century
16North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century
17Historical Background
18Descriptions of Types
19Conclusions
20How to Make Pottery
21How to make pottery
22To My Husband
23PREFACE
24CHAPTER I THE CLAYS AND TOOLS
25CHAPTER II HAND-MADE POTTERY
26CHAPTER III WORKING ON THE WHEEL
27Methods of Decoration
28CHAPTER V THE GLAZE AND HOW TO APPLY IT
29CHAPTER VI POTTERY FOR BEAUTY AND USE
30CHAPTER VII HOW TO MAKE A PLASTER MOULD
31CHAPTER VIII THE MAKING OF A TILE
32CHAPTER IX THE KILN
33CHAPTER X BASKET-COVERED POTTERY
34CHAPTER XI INDIAN POTTERY
35CHAPTER XII MODERN AMERICAN POTTERY
36The Craft of Athenian Pottery
37The Craft of Athenian Pottery
38PREFACE
39I. TECHNICAL PROCESSES IN THE MAKING OF MODERN POTTERY AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE TECHNIQUE OF ANCIENT VASES
40II. REPRESENTATIONS OF ANCIENT POTTERS
41III. REFERENCES TO THE POTTERY CRAFT IN ANCIENT LITERATURE
42CONCLUSION
43SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
44Mohave Pottery
45Mohave Pottery
46MOHAVE POTTERY
47APPENDIX I
48PART II
49China and Pottery Marks
50China and Pottery Marks
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