Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher : Ceramics in America Annual
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780972435338
A diverse range of essays, new discoveries and book reviews on the latest research for interest to ceramic scholars.
Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9780986385780
The 2020 volume of Ceramics in America is a celebration of the depth and diversity of ceramics in the American context. Beautifully illustrated articles explore the use of clay from the most basic building bricks to refined earthenwares promoting the political and economic issues of the American Revolution. Of special interest is the origin of the ceramic manufacturing spark in America, looking at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia cited by historians and connoisseurs as the height of recognition of achievement for ceramic production in the United States. The archaeological discovery of rare "black delft" teapot fragments from Charleston's Drayton Hall is recounted in an exciting collector's narrative. Other articles will include a profile of North Carolina potter David Stuempfle who continues the old-age tradition of producing wood fired stoneware, a study of Thomas Jefferson's Chinese porcelain, and Pueblo pottery collected by a German Museum in the early twentieth century.
Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher : Ceramics in America Annual
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780972435376
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, scholarly interest in ceramics is at an all-time high. As a vehicle for much-needed synthesis, Ceramics in America is an interdisciplinary annual journal that examines the role of historical ceramics in the American context. Intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, decorative arts students, social historians and contemporary potters, every issue features a variety of ground-breaking scholarly articles, new discoveries in the field, and book and exhibition reviews for this diverse audience.The 2006 issue of Ceramics in America will offer another comprehensive compilation of articles and new discoveries. This issue will review evidence of Dutch and English delft tiles used in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American fireplaces. It will also feature new information about American stoneware and the archaeological recovery of commemorative wares related to George Washington in Alexandria, Virginia. The highlight of the journal will be the second part of John Austin's examination of potter Palin Thorely's career and production in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Author : Yumi Park Huntington
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813052416
This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald
Author : Martha Drexler Lynn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300212739
A landmark survey of the formative years of American studio ceramics and the constellation of people, institutions, and events that propelled it from craft to fine art
Author : C. Malcolm Watkins
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Thomas J. Blumer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0817350616
Traces the craft of pottery making among the Catawba Indians of North Carolina from the late 18th century to the present When Europeans encountered them, the Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that carries their name near the present North Carolina-South Carolina border. Archaeologists later collected and identified categories of pottery types belonging to the historic Catawba and extrapolated an association with their protohistoric and prehistoric predecessors. In this volume, Thomas Blumer traces the construction techniques of those documented ceramics to the lineage of their probable present-day master potters or, in other words, he traces the Catawba pottery traditions. By mining data from archives and the oral traditions of contemporary potters, Blumer reconstructs sales circuits regularly traveled by Catawba peddlers and thereby illuminates unresolved questions regarding trade routes in the protohistoric period. In addition, the author details particular techniques of the representative potters—factors such as clay selection, tool use, decoration, and firing techniques—which influence their styles.
Author : Dan Hicks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1107495172
The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c.AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, industrial archaeology, maritime archaeology, cultural resource management and urban archaeology. Three special sections explore the distinctive contributions of material culture studies, landscape archaeology and the archaeology of buildings and the household. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe, Australasia, Africa and around the world, the volume captures the breadth and diversity of contemporary historical archaeology, considers archaeology's relationship with history, cultural anthropology and other periods of archaeological study, and provides clear introductions to alternative conceptions of the field. This book is essential reading for anyone studying or researching the material remains of the recent past.
Author : Jonathan Rickard
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Pottery, British
ISBN : 1584655135
An authoritative guide to the history and craft of this rare and much sought-after ceramic ware.
Author : Susan Peterson
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9784770029911
Lucy is one of the small number of craftspeople of genius in this century. Her importance is in the way she has dipped into the past, taken ancient designs and techniques, and transformed them into new statements. She has quickened and vitalized her ancestral traditions, and in so doing has given the world beautiful and unleashed a creative power in her own community, having inspired a whole new generation of Acoma pottery-makers.
