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Ceramics

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ISBN-10: 0812211561

ISBN-13: 9780812211566

Edition: 1984 (Reprint)

Authors: Philip Rawson, Wayne Higby

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 3/29/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.43" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Phyllis Hartnoll was editor of the Oxford Companion to the Theatre and a well-known authority on theatre history.The late Philip Rawson wrote many bookson Asian art and culture.

Acknowledgments
Foreword
General Considerations
Introduction
The Existential Base
The Role of Technology
Memory-Traces and Meaning
Tactile Values
Techniques
The Material
Forming: General
Hand-Modelling and Beating
Burnishing
Wheel-Throwing
Moulding
Cutting, etc.
Turning
Drying
Firing
Kilns
Slips and Glazes
Symbolism of Form
Ceramics as Treasure
Life Functions
Imitation
Ceremonial
Tactile Order
Tactile Texture
Other Sense Dimensions
Visual Shape
Morphology
Body Images
The Expression of Ceramic Shape
Articulation of Units of Shape
The Modes of Space
Shape Criteria
Colour: General
Colour and Gloss
Individual Colours
Black
White
Blue: and Complementary After-Images
Blue-Green and Green: Complex Colours
Yellows
Reds
Lustre
Surface Design: General
Graphic Emblems
Floral Decoration
Rhythm in Decoration
Pictorial Designs
Frieze Depth
Perspective Pictorialism
Far Eastern Pictorial Space
Pot Surface and Actual Space
Metaphor and Conceit
Ceramics and Total Environment
Potter's Space
Ceramic Sculpture
Far Eastern Ceramic Sculpture
Ceramic Sculpture and Imaginary Worlds
Sculpture in Clay
Conclusion
Select Index and Glossary
Selected List of American Ceramic Artists