- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company (26 Nov 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0892814454
- ISBN-13: 978-0892814459
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.3 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,750,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This is not a book to be read from front to back but rather a book to dip into at random for refreshment of the spirit, for a laugh, for reflection, or in some cases for a challenge to ideas held dear. Each time I have opened it there has been a surprise and something to engage my interest."
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In a celebration of the functional and the handmade, potter Ronald Larsen has gathered an engaging collection of essays, stories, poems, and observations by a wide range of potters, writers, philosophers, and other artisans, exploring the history, aesthetics, and philosophy behind making pots--or anything else--by hand.
Includes, among others, the writings of:
Marguerite Wildenhain--A Potter's Philosophy
Octavio Paz--Use and Contemplation
Lafcadio Hearn--The Tale of the Porcelain-God
John Updike--From the Journal of a Leper
Jamake Highwater--Illusions of Originality
Wallace Stevens--Anecdote of the Jar
Bernard Leach--The Potter's Challenge
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I feel a lot of sympathy for the lecturer who recently told a large gathering that if all craft potters and their works were to disappear overnight from the face of the earth, the world at large would not notice that anything had happened. Read the first page
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I feel a lot of sympathy for the lecturer who recently told a large gathering that if all craft potters and their works were to disappear overnight from the face of the earth, the world at large would not notice that anything had happened. Read the first page
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