Global Clay
Themes in World Ceramic Traditions
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Product details:
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date of Publication 4 December 2017
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9780253031884
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 254x203 mm
- Weight 1338 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 228 color illus. - 228 Halftones, color Halftones, color 0
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Long description:
For over 25,000 years, humans across the globe have shaped, decorated, and fired clay. Despite great differences in location and time, universal themes appear in the world's ceramic traditions, including religious influences, human and animal representations, and mortuary pottery. In Global Clay: Themes in World Ceramic Traditions, noted pottery scholar John A. Burrison explores the recurring artistic themes that tie humanity together, explaining how and why those themes appear again and again in worldwide ceramic traditions. The book is richly illustrated with over 200 full-color, cross-cultural illustrations of ceramics from prehistory to the present. Providing an introduction to different styles of folk pottery, extensive suggestions for further reading, and reflections on the future of traditional pottery around the world, Global Clay is sure to become a classic for all who love art and pottery and all who are intrigued by the human commonalities revealed through art.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. International Folk Pottery: A Brief Primer
2. Monuments to Clay: Public Markers of Craft Identity
3. The Human Image: Face Jugs and Other People-Pots
4. The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Cross-Cultural Imitations
5. A Clay Menagerie: The Animal World in Ceramics
6. Idols with Feet of Clay: Ceramics and World Religions
7. Returning to Clay: Death and the Afterlife
8. The Last Folk Potters?: Prognosis for the Future
Suggested Reading
Index
