The first ever book to provide a comprehensive overview of British pottery, The Potter's Art traces this remarkable history of pottery all the way from the rudimentary pots of the Middle Ages to the sophisticated art of today's studio potters. Begin…
I'm here to introduce you to the fact that your dreams are possibly more than merely dreams. They're actually a vision of your possible future. You have dreams in the middle of the night when you're sleeping and your body's resting, but you're dream…
Dark Light is the first book on the ceramics of the great Navajo ceramist Christine Nofchissey McHorse and features her award-winning sculptural black series begun in 1998. Authors Clark and Del Vecchio, the two foremost experts on international con…
The artist Beatrice Wood, born in 1893, lived and worked until the age of 105. She was known variously as the Mama of Dada and the Queen of Luster. In 1917 she was part of the avant-garde Dada movement in New York. By the mid-1950s she had become a…
Group B was one of the key architectural groups extensively excavated by NWAF in the early 1960s at the iconic Late Preclassic center of Izapa. The excavations, caches, burials, and stone monuments are presented in detail, as well as broader assessm…
The animals in Beth Cavener's work are better described as avatars, embodiments of persons or emotions that disguise her subjects. In this way she gives her subjects an expanded identity, pairing each with an animal that, to one extent or another, e…
Misunderstood and unappreciated during his lifetime (1857-1918), George Ohr, America's archetypal artist-potter, pushed the form of the vessel beyond mere function to the point of abstraction. Today the genius of this radical and sophisticated artis…
