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"Broad and lively." --"Ceramics Monthly"
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The firing of clay is one of the most significant developments in the history of humankind. It is a technological advance, now taken so much for granted, that many have forgotten the ancient power that fire and change exercised over the lives of our ancestors and their imaginations. This book is an attempt to redress that balance by investigating the place of firing in a contemporary context of myth, poetics, philosophy and technology.
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A little too artsy but still informative....
9 Oct 2011
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I thought the beginning of the book a lucid and scientific review of firing details and the chemistry of changes clay undergoes during firing but the articles of different firing techniques, glazes, and materials the worlds potter's are using is a bit poorly done. It is almost like separate brochures submitted by various art studios around the world written by the artists in their own dreamy and non-concrete terms that is often not helpful or descriptive at all. Like "I fire clay because I feel a balance in the material that opens dreamlike possibilities that expand world consciousness through glazing techniques and materials from the center of the spirit of the earth....blah blah blah." But the various strange and inventive kilns shown and the various techniques are at least worth a quick view. Try to get this book very cheap and don't worry about the condition."
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