Product Description

This is a look at the traditional handbuilding methods of pinching, coiling, slab building and press moulding, explaining how to do them. For many years, these methods were eclipsed as throwing came to dominate as a making method. However, in the past 30 years, handbuilding has once more come to the fore as a prefered technique among ceramic artists. These artists are exploring the possibilities that handbuilding provides, pushing back the boundaries and combining techniques in their effort to achieve their artistic vision. This book explores all of these methods and uses the work of an international group of artists to illustrate what can be done with these techniques.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #489249 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Redefines handbuilding as a creative process
Hardy takes the process - usually viewed as a poor relation to throwing - to new levels of creativity and sophistication. He stimulates readers by using as illustration the work of carefully selected and well-established exponents of the technique. Underpinning the illustrations of creativity, he carefully works through handbuilding methods, so that readers are able to draw on a portfolio of techniques to express their own ideas. The book is a good blend of practical advice and photographs to fire the imagination into exploring further how handbuilding can create astonishing results. Photographs of making methods are clear and well lit, so that you can see exactly what to do. A welcome change from many ceramic books whose demonstration photographs seem to have been taken in a workshop where smoke firing was taking place at the same time as the photography.