Red Rocks Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 I just finished reading the old thread on potter's who influenced your life, started by Marcia. How about an off-shoot? "The top 5 books on pottery that influenced you the most. I would list mine as: - Marguerite Wildenhain - The Invisible Core: A Potter's Life and Thoughts - Bernard Leach - The Potter's Challenge - Michael Cardew - A Pioneer Potter - Charles Counts - Pottery Workshop - Frederick Olsen - The Kiln Book I am always looking out for new books (or old ones for that matter) on pottery and the philosophy of pottery – so hopefully this will start a thread of us sharing books that have inspired us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Getting it down to 5 is hard HAMMADA,potter Clay and glazes for the potter-Rhodes Stoneware and Porcelain-Rhodes The Kiln book-Olsen The art of Firing-Nils Lou runner -up all studio potter issues Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendey Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 I just finished reading the old thread on potter's who influenced your life, started by Marcia. How about an off-shoot? "The top 5 books on pottery that influenced you the most. I would list mine as: - Marguerite Wildenhain - The Invisible Core: A Potter's Life and Thoughts - Bernard Leach - The Potter's Challenge - Michael Cardew - A Pioneer Potter - Charles Counts - Pottery Workshop - Frederick Olsen - The Kiln Book I am always looking out for new books (or old ones for that matter) on pottery and the philosophy of pottery – so hopefully this will start a thread of us sharing books that have inspired us. Michael Cardew - Pioneer Potter Robin Hopper - Functional Pottery Leila Philip - The Road Through Miyama - memoir about living in a small Japanese village as a pottery apprentice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronMike Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Here are my top five: - Out of the Earth, into the Fire: A Course in Ceramic Materials for the Studio Potter - The Ceramic Spectrum by hopper - Glazes from Natural Sources by Brian Sutherland - Wood-Fired Stoneware and Porcelian by Jack Troy - Gas Burners for Forges, Furnaces, and Kilns by Michael Porter Then if you are into wood fire like me look into "The log book" series. by Coll Minogue and Robert Sanderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 I would say for my education early on in ceramics: - Bernard Leach - The Potter's Book - Michael Cardew - A Pioneer Pottery -Stoneware and Porcelain; the Art of High Fired Pottery by Daniel Rhodes -The short Kiln Building book by Paul Soldner -The Potters' Alternative by Harry Davis + the Studio Potter Book 1978 and some other favorites for looking at how others made their way in ceramics: -Grand Feu Ceramics- Taxile Doat biography of Bernard Palissy by Leonard Amico Glory in Porcelain , biography of Adelaide Robineau by Peg Weiss The Ceramics Career of M Louise McLaughlin Mad Potter of Biloxi Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Waller Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 10,000 years of pottery by Emmanuel Cooper (earlier printings/editions titled Ten thousand years of pottery) Pottery analysis: a sourcebook by Prudence M. Rice Pottery in the making: world ceramic traditions edited by Ian Freestone and David Gaimster Gifts of the Nile edited by Florence Friedman Ceramics from Islamic lands by Oliver Watson I love these book threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Rocks Posted August 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 There are some really great books listed here…should really add some inspirational books to our reading lists. I saw Marcia called out a book about George Ohr, the mad potter of Biloxi. A really amazing character – if you have never heard of him, you should definitely look him up. He was someone way ahead of his time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 There are some really great books listed here…should really add some inspirational books to our reading lists. I saw Marcia called out a book about George Ohr, the mad potter of Biloxi. A really amazing character – if you have never heard of him, you should definitely look him up. He was someone way ahead of his time. I visited his museum in Biloxi last year. it is a growing institution and awesome museum. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted January 14, 2014 Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 Piccolpasso's Three Books of the Potter's Art add to my list! is a great book on traditions during the renaissance. I visited the De Gracie Pottery in Deruta, Italy in 2004 where they were still practicing traditions for majolica production as described in the book. The Studio Potter's Book , add this one too. Very resourceful. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pres Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 I mentioned this one in another thread or two, Penland School of Crafts, Book of Pottery. Ten influential potters from the 60's talking about their work and graphically demonstrating pieces they have done. A short gallery with each potter. Notables are Reitz, Turner, Larsons, Bringle, Peiser, and Takaezu. Work that I have admired for years, and have borrowed from in my own work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Alexandra Copeland wrote a great little book for discovering ceramics collections in Europe. I have used it often.She was a presenter at the Majolica conference in Toronto in 1992. She had them for sale there. A Guide to Ceramics in European Museums organized by countries. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biglou13 Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 Kilns..... Rhodes Japanese woodfired ceramics- kusakabe Clay glazes....... Rhodes Stone ware and porcelain- Rhodes Only 4. But I just found art of firing in a reference library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natania Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 I just finished Emmanual Cooper's biography of Lucie Rie. Very inspiring and interesting to read about her life and that of Hans Coper. Also, the Pot Book by Edmund de Waal is a fun coffee-table type book, and he lists artists who work in a similar way on each page. This is a fun aspects as it can send you on a little journey of research and appreciation. The pots are listed alphabetically (by their makers) so you get some interesting juxtapositions as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smb Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Can anyone recommend some books on 18th ,19th century functional pottery. I am wanting to throw some historically correct mugs, bowls, pitchers, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChenowethArts Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 My Top 5 list is a mixed bag of things...but I seem to come back to these: Clay - A Studio Handbook - Vince Pitelka From Mud to Music - Barry Hall Mastering Portraiture - Phillipe Faraut 500 Figures in Clay - Lark Ceramics (and Volume is out now) The Kiln Book - Frederick L. Olsen And thanks to all... I will be adding several of the recommendations in this thread to my wish list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark369 Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 The Potter's Complete Book of Clay and Glazes by James Chappell Clay and Glazes for the Potter by Daniel Rhodes Ceramics A Potters Handbook by Glen C Nelson Clay Bodies by Robert Tichane Ceramic Formulas: The complete compendium by John W Conrad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 I am repeating myself for the most part. But these are the first ones that pop into my head. The Potters Booka by Bernard Leach 16th century Piccolpasso's Three books of the Potter Bernard Pallisey' s biography of his trials and errors in majolica 17 or 18th century The Potters Craft pre Charles Binns. 19th century I had a copy that belonged to Dave Finklenberg's Aunt Augusta who lived in Montana Grand Feu Ceramics by Taxile Doat who worked at the Sevres Porcelain factory before coming to the US to work at the Women's university in St. Louis with Adelaide Robineau. Paul Soldner's kiln book more like a monograph. The AP Green Pocket manual with brick combos for arches. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synj00 Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 I'm reading Hamada Potter by Bernard Leach. What fantastic reading! I was chuckling at some of the stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebekah Krieger Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 I am reading "a potters book" by Leach, I am not done with it, but It has moved me to tears several times. I am such a sap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 I "grew up" on "A Potters Book"....... it was the 'bible' when I started clay. best, ..................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted March 12, 2014 Report Share Posted March 12, 2014 I "grew up" on "A Potters Book"....... it was the 'bible' when I started clay. best, ..................john I can't believe my county library don't have a copy of this book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted March 13, 2014 Report Share Posted March 13, 2014 check Amazon for a used copy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted March 14, 2014 Report Share Posted March 14, 2014 I agree with John, the Potters Book was a Bible. I reread it when I started working with oil burners and that part made sense the second time around after experiencing clinker buildup from poor combustion. That helped tremendously in redesigning our oil burner adaptation with three nozzles. The burners were published in the Studio Potter Book in 1973! Thank you, Sir Leach. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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