- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd (30 Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713652055
- ISBN-13: 978-0713652055
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 22 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 959,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a glorious overview of the human figure as it has appeared on or in ceramic form from prehistoric times up to the present. The human form was one of the earliest images to appear in artwork, and with ceramics it took various forms - sometimes drawn on the surface, sometimes made into the shape of a vessel and sometimes made into a statue. In this book Betty Blandino looks at how artists from all over the world have tackled this subject. The result is a fascinating and beautiful survey of one of the mainstream themes of art history.
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Betty Blandino has been a full-time potter since 1973, after a previous career in education as a teacher, art advisor to schools, and a director of the Upper Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, under the ILEA. She is on the Crafts Council selected index and has had many solo and group exhibitions; her work is in permanent collections in Britain and abroad. She has previously written Coiled Pottery for A&C Black.
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A new view by a famous potter
28 May 2002
Format:Hardcover
Betty Blandino's new book, The Figure in Fired Clay is spectacular. The collection of gorgeous photos alone make it a very thumbable coffee table book, but--make no mistake--it is more than that.
Blandino reviews the history of the seemingly universal tendency of people all over the world to take a lump of clay and mold it into a recognizable figure. Many of these artefacts come from civilizations of which we have no other surviving record. I loved the section on the earliest clay figures, and also the wonderful photographs of the work of contemporary ceramicists, many of whom were quite new to me.
Betty Blandino is a distinguished potter herself, and this is what brings this book to life. As she says in the Foreword: "Nothing but a small lump of soft clay accompanying these paper pages could have allowed those who have not used it to understand and feel the pleasure of this tolerant, flexible material as well as appreciating the wilfulness of its character."
I highly recommend this book if you are interested in pottery, and/or the human form, and perhaps like me have not seen how these two interests go together.
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