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POTTERY HANDBOOK

Simon Leach s Pottery

  a n d b o o k  by Simon Leach

with Bruce Dehnert

This how-to instructional book

combines text and large step-by-

step photos of core throwing,

trimming, assembling, deco-

rating, and firing techniques

with associated video clips on

a companion DVD, giving the

reader multiple ways to process

the information.

Simon Leach s Pottery Han dboo k  by Simon Leach with Bruce

Dehnert. Hardcover spiral

 bound

includes DVD), 240pages. Stewart

Tabori  Chang an imprint ofAbrams, New York New  York 2013.

www.abramsbooks.com.  ISBN:  978-1-61769-022-8.

Infinite Piace: The

Ceramic Art of Wayne

H ig by  edited by Peter Held

This monograph includes texts

and essays by Helen W. Drutt

English, Peter Held, Tanya

Harrod, Henry M. Sayre, Ezra

Shales, Carla Coch, and Mary

Drach Mclnnes. The book cov-

ers Higby s entire career, in both

texts and images, and discusses

the way that landscape and place

have influenced his work.

Infinite Place: Th e C eramic Art

of Wayne Higby

  edited by Peter

Held. Hardcover 216 page, 180 images.  Arnoldsche Art Publishers,

Stuttgart, Germany and Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe,

Arizona, 2013. www.arnoldsche.com.  ISBN:  978-3-89790-384-5.

Kathy Venter: Life

The Gardiner Museum

essay by John K. Grande

Focusing on 36 terra-cotta

figurative sculptures of everyday

wom en, 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.

Natural Glazes: Collecting

and Making

by Miranda Forrest

Forrest explains how to source

and collect materials—degraded

rocks; ash from seaweed, flowers,

and different types of wood; iron

ochre and other colorants from

local depo sits;  s well as local clays.

After discussing how to process

the materials, she explains how to

test them either on their own or in

combination with clays and glazes

that you already have in the stu dio.

The New Ceramics Natural Glazes: Collecting and Making

  by

Miranda   Forrest. Paperback, 112 pages, l40 color illustrations.

University  of Pennsylvania  Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2013.

www.upenn.edu/pennpress.

  ISBN:

  978-0-812-22262-3.

Paperclay: Ar t and Practice

by Rosette Qault

Building on her previous book.

Paper Clay,  Rosette Gault s new

book covers both the basics along

with intermediate and advanced

techniques for working with the

material, including creating arma-

tures, building

 figures

and creating

wall-mounted forms. Images of

both works-in-progress and finished

pieces by other contemporary art-

ists who use paperclay are included

throughout the book.

Paperclay: Art and Practice, by Rosette Gault. Paperback 160pages, 150

color illustrations.  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pen

sylvania, 2013. www.upenn.edu/pennpress. ISBN:978-1-4081-3120-6.

500 Teapots: Voiume 2

juried by Jim  Lawton

This second volume collects im-

ages of sculptural and functional

teapots made roughly between

2007 and 2012 by both well-

known and emerging artists. Tea-

pots 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 of Sterling Publishing New  York New  York

2013.

  www.larkcrafts.com.

  ISBN:

  978-1-4547-0398-3.

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