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Simon Leach's Pottery

Natural Glazes: Collecting

and Making
H a n d b o o k by Simon Leach
with Bruce Dehnert
by Miranda Forrest
Forrest explains how to source
This how-to instructional book
and collect materialsdegraded
combines text and large step-byrocks; ash from seaweed, flowers,
step photos of core throwing,
and
different types of wood; iron
trimming,
assembling,
decoPOTTERY HANDBOOK
ochre and other colorants from
rating, and firing techniques
local deposits; as well as local clays.
with associated video clips on
After discussing how to process
a companion DVD, giving the
the
materials, she explains how to
reader multiple ways to process
test them either on their own or in
the information.
combination with clays and glazes
Simon Leach's Pottery Handbook by Simon Leach with Bruce
that you already have in the studio.
Dehnert. Hardcover (spiral bound, includes DVD), 240pages. Stewart
The
New
Ceramics
Natural
Glazes:
Collecting and Making by
Tabori & Chang, an imprint ofAbrams, New York, New York, 2013.
Miranda
Forrest.
Paperback,
112
pages,
l40 color illustrations.
www.abramsbooks.com. ISBN: 978-1-61769-022-8.
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2013.
www.upenn.edu/pennpress. ISBN: 978-0-812-22262-3.
Infinite Piace: The
Ceramic Art of Wayne

Paperclay: Art and Practice

H ig by edited by Peter Held

by Rosette Qault
This monograph includes texts
Building on her previous book.
and essays by Helen W. Drutt
Paper
Clay, Rosette Gault's new
English, Peter Held, Tanya
book covers both the basics along
Harrod, Henry M. Sayre, Ezra
with intermediate and advanced
Shales, Carla Coch, and Mary
techniques for working with the
Drach Mclnnes. The book covmaterial, including creating armaers Higby's entire career, in both
tures, buildingfigures,and creating
texts and images, and discusses
wall-mounted forms. Images of
the way that landscape and place
both works-in-progress and finished
have influenced his work.
pieces
by other contemporary artInfinite Place: The Ceramic Art
ists who use paperclay are included
of Wayne Higby edited by Peter
throughout the book.
Held. Hardcover, 216 page, 180 images. Arnoldsche Art Publishers,
Paperclay:
Art
and
Practice,
by
Rosette
Gault. Paperback, 160pages, 150
Stuttgart, Germany and Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe,
color
illustrations.
University
of
Pennsylvania
Press, Philadelphia, Penn
Arizona, 2013. www.arnoldsche.com. ISBN: 978-3-89790-384-5.
sylvania, 2013. www.upenn.edu/pennpress. ISBN:978-1-4081-3120-6.

Kathy Venter: Life

The Gardiner Museum
essay by John K. Grande
Focusing on 36 terra-cotta
figurative sculptures of everyday
women, an essay by Grande and
an interview with Venter expand
on the personal, cultural, and art
histories she references for her
life-size portraits of women at
all stages of life.
Kathy Venter: Life by John K.
Grande. Hardcover, 80 pages,
Gardiner Museum, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, 2013. ISBN:
978-0-9784999-6-9.
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ceramic arts 2014 | Yearbook and Annuai Buyers Guide

500 Teapots: Voiume 2

juried by Jim Lawton
This second volume collects images of sculptural and functional
teapots made roughly between
2007 and 2012 by both wellknown and emerging artists. Teapots were the focus of the first ever
book in the 500 series, published
over 10 years ago. The works in
this new volume show the current
trends in a wide variety of approaches to the form.
500 Teapots: Volume 2 juried by Jim Lawton. Paperback, 420 pages.
Lark Crafts, an imprint ofSterling Publishing, New York, New York,
2013. www.larkcrafts.com. ISBN: 978-1-4547-0398-3.

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