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The Craft and Art of Clay

ISBN: 9780133744637 | 0133744639
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall (Sd)
Pub. Date: 3/1/1996

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
"The Craft and Art of Clay," by leading ceramics teacher Susan Peterson, is the most comprehensive available guide to modern ceramics, packed with step-by-step illustrations of ceramic techniques to guide the beginner as well as inspirational ceramic pieces from contemporary potters from around the world. This completely revised fourth edition contains more than 150 new illustrations and includes profiles of key ceramists who have influenced the field, new material on marketing ceramics on the internet, and added coverage of paperclays, using gold, and alternative glazes. This is the one book no ceramist, whether novice or expert, can do without.
Preface9(2)
1 THE CRAFT AND ART OF CLAY
11(12)
Safety Issues
20(3)
... MORE
2 FABRICATION METHODS
23(80)
Introduction
24(3)
Handbuilding
27(23)
Clayworking tools
31(1)
Spiral wedging
32(1)
Pinching a vessel
33(1)
Coil building: smooth surface
34(1)
Coil building: textured surface
35(1)
Coil and pinch sculpture
36(1)
Slab building
37(1)
Large slab constructions I
38(1)
Large slab constructions II
39(1)
Handbuilding with porcelain
40(1)
Handbuilding in or over forms
41(1)
Figures
42(2)
Mechanical methods of forming
44(1)
Making walls I
45(1)
Making walls II
46(1)
Walls
47(1)
John Mason's handbuilt sculpture
48(2)
Wheel-Throwing
50(41)
Throwing on the wheel
53(1)
Throwing faults and remedies
54(1)
Centering
55(1)
Opening the ball
56(1)
Pulling up
57(1)
Throwing a bowl
58(1)
Shinsaku Hamada's large bowl
59(1)
Takaezu's balloon-form
60(1)
Throwing a pitcher
61(1)
Bowl forms
62(1)
Pitcher and bottle forms
63(1)
Throwing a bottle
64(1)
Rolling or trimming a foot
65(1)
Pulled and thrown handles
66(1)
Attaching a handle
67(1)
Thrown and cut lug handles
68(1)
Flat lids for flanged pots
69(1)
Lidded pot forms
70(1)
Dome lids for flanged pots
71(1)
Flanged lids: domed and flat
72(1)
Casserole dish with inside flange
73(1)
Casserole trimming and lid making
74(1)
Thrown casserole knob
75(1)
Platter throwing
76(1)
Platter and plate trimming
77(1)
Platter forms
78(1)
Teapot forms
79(1)
Teapot throwing and trimming
80(1)
Teapot lid and spout
81(1)
Attaching teapot spout and handle
82(1)
Susan Peterson's wheel-thrown forms
83(1)
Donut throwing and trimming
84(1)
Off-the-hump throwing
85(1)
Pedestal vessels
86(1)
Throwing large vessels
87(1)
Thrown and hand construction
88(1)
Thrown slab constructions
89(1)
Peter Voulkos' altered wheel forms
90(1)
Plasterwork
91(12)
Preparing plaster
93(1)
Making a one-piece mold
94(1)
Making a two-piece mold
95(1)
Two-piece mold with handle
96(1)
Slip casting and press molding
97(1)
Multipiece molds
98(1)
Wheelheads and complicated molds
99(1)
Inventing with molds
100(1)
A ceramic installation
101(2)
3 DESIGN, DECORATION, AND GLAZING
103(26)
Design: from Idea to Art
104(6)
An exercise in how to see
106(1)
Experimenting with design
107(1)
Design ideas from nature
108(2)
Decoration
110(6)
Decorating with clay
111(1)
Pre-patterned decoration
112(1)
Creating line in clay
113(1)
Texturing clay
114(1)
Prints from clay
115(1)
Glazing
116(13)
Weighing and mixing a glaze
118(1)
Glaze application
119(3)
Decorating with glaze
122(1)
Decorating over and under glaze
123(1)
Decorative techniques with glazes
124(1)
Surface details
125(1)
The Japanese way
126(1)
Photo-emulsion and decals
127(2)
4 CLAYS
129(26)
Science and ceramic art
130(1)
Geological types of natural clays
131(3)
Commercial clays after firing
134(1)
Test results of commercial clays
135(1)
Classifying fired clay wares
136(2)
What is a clay body?
138(1)
Testing materials
139(2)
Composing a good clay body
141(2)
Talc body
143(1)
Additions to the clay-body batch
144(2)
Preparing the clay for work
146(1)
Making casting slip
147(1)
Historical clay bodies
148(4)
Unusual clay bodies
152(3)
5 GLAZES
155(50)
Feldspars: clay and glaze fluxes
156(1)
Origins of glazes
157(1)
Fine examples of glazes
158(2)
Visual samples: 34 glaze materials, alone and in 50/50 blends
160(4)
Reading the test photographs
164(2)
50/50 blends of 34 glaze materials, cone 5 oxidation
166(2)
50/50 blends of 34 glaze materials, cone 10 reduction
168(2)
Compounding a complete glaze
170(1)
Composite glaze fluxes
170(2)
Organic materials for glazes
172(1)
Fusion buttons of frits
173(1)
Garbage glazes
174(1)
Colors
175(4)
Ceramic coloring implements
179(1)
Stains for coloring implements
180(1)
Color blends
181(5)
Ferro frits-plus-stains -- low-fire
186(2)
Frits-plus-stains -- high-fire
188(2)
Changing glazes
190(2)
Low-fire treatments
192(2)
MayCo "one-strokes" (stains)
194(1)
MayCo "underglazes" (engobes)
195(1)
MayCo "art glazes"
196(1)
MayCo "special glazes"
197(1)
Luster
198(1)
China paint process
198(3)
Working with gold
201(1)
Drawing a grid pattern
202(1)
Glaze faults
203(2)
6 FIRING THE WARE
205(32)
Temperature
207(3)
Atmosphere
210(1)
Kilns
211(8)
Placing kilns
215(1)
Kiln materials
215(2)
Stacking kilns
217(2)
Firing
219(18)
Principles of kiln firing
220(2)
"Rebirth through clay"
222(1)
Special firing techniques
223(1)
Firing faults
224(1)
Patinas developed in firing
225(12)
7 HIGHPOINTS IN CERAMIC HISTORY
237(32)
Historical Overview
239(23)
Influences in our time
253(2)
Site-specific installations
255(3)
Tile
258(1)
Narrative
259(1)
Mixed media
260(1)
Kaneko's Fremont project
261(1)
Ancient Traditions
262(7)
Golden Bridge Pottery
267(2)
8 PORTFOLIO
269(48)
9 COMPENDIUM
317(32)
Glaze Oxides
318(5)
Chemical Compositions
323(9)
Calculating glaze by formula
325(7)
Data and Conversions
332(17)
Feldspars, frits, and clays
332(8)
Temperatures and cones
340(6)
Conversion charts
346(1)
Computer programs
347(2)
Artists' Techniques349(11)
List of Artists360(2)
Museum Collections362(17)
Glossary379(7)
Annotated Bibliography386(7)
General books on ceramics386(2)
Ceramic history388(4)
Technical books392(1)
Ceramics Magazines393(1)
Acknowledgements394(1)
Index395
Susan Peterson is Professor Emerita of Ceramics at Hunter College at the City University of New York, and is a practicing ceramist whose work has been exhibited throughout the world

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