Modern Pots

Modern Pots

Author: Cyril Frankel

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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This is the first major publication devoted to the work of the outstanding group of studio potters in the second half of the 20th century. The collection recorded is the preeminent, representative collection of the work of Lucie Rie (1902-95) and Hans Coper (1920-81), while also including important examples of the works of some 20 other potters - including Shoji Hamada, Bernard Leach, Janet Leach, Maria Martinez, Ewen Henderson, Ian Godfrey, and James Tower - as well as a group of younger artists whose inclusion is testimony to Lisa Sainsbury's untiring search for promising young talent in this field.


Contemporary British Studio Pottery

Contemporary British Studio Pottery

Author: Ashley Thorpe

Publisher: The Crowood Press

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 635

ISBN-13: 0719842433

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Pots have existed across the world and in different cultures for thousands of years. This volume explores how contemporary makers use the ancient language of the pot to convey contemporary ideas, from the sculptural and painterly to the ecological and satirical. This beautifully produced book is a visually rich and critically in-depth focus on the work of twenty-four potters. A companion volume to Contemporary British Ceramics: Beneath the Surface, it reveals how pots can be extraordinarily powerful forms of expression.


Pots

Pots

Author: Harriet Rycroft

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Published: 2022-10-04

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0711272484

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Pots is the perfect guide to help you fill your containers with plants, tend to their needs and watch them flourish every season.


Pots, Pans, and People: Material Culture and Nature in Mesoamerican Ceramics

Pots, Pans, and People: Material Culture and Nature in Mesoamerican Ceramics

Author: Eduardo Williams

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2024-07-19

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1803278102

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This book explores material culture and human adaptations to nature over time, with a focus on ceramics. The author also explores the role of ethnoarchaeology and ethnohistory as key elements of a broad research strategy that seeks to understand human interaction with nature over time.


Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford

Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford

Author: Stephen Wass

Publisher: Windgather Press

Published: 2022-11-30

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1914427181

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Based on a decade of archaeological investigation and historical research, this book tells the story of the Copes of Hanwell Castle in north Oxfordshire and the creation of a garden with links to the development of scientific thinking in Oxford in the late seventeenth century. New research using Robert Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire as a starting point has uncovered details of a remarkable family and their rise and tragic downfall, their social circle, that included some great names in the development of early scientific thinking, and their garden that in effect became a place dedicated to the wonders of technology. The complex tale weaves together the activities of a royalist agent, Richard Allestree, a prodigious musician, Thomas Baltzar, John Claridge, a Hanwell Shepherd with a penchant for weather forecasting, and Sir Anthony Cope who in an atmosphere of secrecy and distrust began to gather together a community that eventually was named by Plot as The New Atlantis, a reference to a book published earlier in the century by Sir Francis Bacon in which he suggests a model for a Utopian science-focused society. The book also chronicles the program of archaeological excavation that has uncovered several unusual garden features and, most significantly of all, describes in detail the unique collection of seventeenth-century terracotta garden urns, an assemblage that is unparalleled in post-medieval archaeology. This collection was destroyed in a single episode of vandalism around 1675 and has been preserved in deeply buried deposits of mud and silt. Their analysis and reconstruction is opening new insights into the decorative schemes of seventeenth-century gardens. There is coverage of other gardens of the period and their surviving features as well as an examination of early science and how gardens impacted on its development in many ways.


HomeMade Modern

HomeMade Modern

Author: Ben Uyeda

Publisher: Running Press Adult

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0762455071

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You can make the furniture you want at a fraction of the price of store-bought furniture. Not only will you save tons of money, but you'll also make environmentally sustainable pieces that are solidly built, using real materials like metal, wood, concrete, and other recycled ready-mades. The projects in this book don't require special skills, prior experience, or even a garage full of tools. You'll be walked step-by-step through the process of making furniture, from where to buy the materials (or where to scavenge) to how to make the most of the tools you own.


Pinch Pottery

Pinch Pottery

Author: Susan Halls

Publisher: Union Square & Company

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781454704133

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The technique is simple; the results are gorgeous! Susan Hallss stunningly refined, sophisticated, and modern projects range from a mug and vase to a teapot and triple herb planter. Beginning with the basic pinch pot, they move on to wider, taller, and composite forms, all with stunning options for color and surface decoration.


The Garden

The Garden

Author: Toby Musgrave

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781838660765

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Following the bestselling 'The Gardener's Garden', garden expert and historian Toby Musgrave explores the creative art of garden-making through more than 200 elements and features. This is the ultimate reference guide, with entries ranging from Allee and Bower to Formal, Native Planting, and Xeriscape - each illustrated with examples drawn from historic and contemporary gardens around the world. Whether tending an English cottage garden or a Japanese Zen landscape, gardeners and garden lovers everywhere will be inspired as never before.


Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past

Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past

Author: Victor Buchli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1134571372

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Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology. This volume represents the most recent research in this area and examines a variety of contexts including: * Art Deco * landfills * miner strikes * college fraternities * an abandoned council house.