Product Description

What makes the ceramic bowl such an enduring art form? It has everything: form, volume, surface, texture and colour, plus 10,000 years of history! It can be both useful and decorative, yet it is one of the simplest and most basic forms that potters make. This book provides a visual tour of how ceramists from around the world are interpreting this classic form today. The 500 masterful, inspired works presented in this book prove there are new things to say: the bowl is still being reinterpreted and reinvented every day! * FASCINATING compilation for arts and crafts ceramists and collectors of 500 of the most creative and astounding bowl designs you have ever seen. * FABULOUS SOURCEBOOK: pottery enthusiasts will enjoy the huge variety of shapes, surface treatments and techniques: traditional pit-fired, slip and earthenware, porcelain, salt-fired stoneware, hand-built and carved.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #163903 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

A book for ideas and inspiration.
Want to make a bowl and stuck for an idea? Ideas abound in this book both for the creative and the perhaps not so creative person. Bowls of many shapes, designs and colours - don't just think clay and ceramic this book would inspirational for making papermache bowls. If you like art and design but actually making something is not for you then sit down with this book and be truely amazed at the imagination and creativity of others. The photographs of each bowl are clear and the paper is good quality and there is a brief outline of the technique used. There is no history or background to each bowl (I would have liked to know a little about the inspiration for each piece) but for the price and what you get in content in this well presented book you'd be crazy not to add this title to your bookshelf.