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Volumes 16 to 20 -- 1987-1992


Cover - Vol.16, No.1

Volume 16, Number 1
December, 1987

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Figurative ceramics - articles by classical scholars and by contemporary ceramic artists:

  • Mirror Makers by Frank Boyden, guest editor
  • Form and Experience by Adrian Arleo
  • "Draw up a Chair..." by Viola Frey and Charles Fiske
  • A Correspondence by Jack Earl
  • The Figure Erotic by Akio Takamori
  • As If Looking into a Mirror by Judy Moonelis
  • Goddesses and Ants by Kirk Mangus
  • Figure by Implication by Deborah Horrell
  • The Weight of Consciousness by Debra Sherwood
  • Figure in the Personal Narrative by Christine Federighi
  • African American Woman by Winnie Owens-Hart
  • Standing Alone by Richard Notkin
  • The Muse's Song by Margaret Ford
  • Clay Imagery by Mike Moran
  • Skulls by James "Son Ford" Thomas
  • Figure Drawing on Clay and Other Surfaces by Rudy Autio
  • The Glimpse of Grace by Ronna Neuenschwander
  • The Voyeuristic Eye by Patti Warashina
  • Constructing from the Inside by Imre Schrammel
  • West Mexican Mortuary Art: A Look Back by Peter T. Furst
  • Death, Sex, and Ceramics in Ancient Peru by Carl Coker
  • Haniwa Funerary Sculptures by Gina L. Barnes
  • Sui and Tang Dynasty Human Figurines by Virginia Bower
Also: Wisconsin Potters - visits with 24 artists; Being and Meaning by Ted Randall; Ted Randall: An Appreciation by Val Cushing.


Cover - Vol.16, No.2

Volume 16, Number 2
June, 1988

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West African Pottery:

  • A Portfolio of West African Pots
  • African Art: Traditional and Contemporary Pottery by Dele Jegede
  • The Vision by Daniel Cobblah
The Case for Clay in Secondary Art Education - papers presented at the 1988 symposium at NYU (also available as a monograph):
  • Clay: Arguments For and With by Edmund Burke Feldman
  • When Clay is Play and Play is Art by John Lidstone
  • Education as Initiation by M.C. Richards
  • If Clay is the Answer, What is the Question? by David Ecker
  • Putting It All Together by Judith M. Burton
  • The Preadolescent Sculptor and the Teacher by Angio Churchill
  • The Development of Representational Concepts in a 3-D Medium by Claire Golomb
  • Illusion and the Clay Conversion by George Kokis
  • The Many Faces of Clay: Devising Cirricula in Response to Needs by Judith Schwartz
  • Listening to the Clay: Artist in the Schools by Squidge Davis
  • How to Build a Comprehensive Clay Program for Grades 4-12 by Leslie Eckmann
  • Using the Museum as a Resource by Mary Jane Moross
  • Building Careers: Commercial, Industrial, Studio by Jim Tabor
  • Viva Picasso: A Collaboration by Michael Prepsky
  • Breaking the Mold: Clay, Creativity, and the Criminal Mind by Dale Ruff
  • Close Encounters with a Third Dimension: Making College Resources Available by Regis Brodie
  • The Craft Experience and the Adolescent by Jo-Anna J. Moore
  • Kids' Clay: The Exhibition, Recommendations for Instruction, and Scenarios for the Future by Ted DeMuro
  • An Alternative Art Program by Jane Sinauer
  • An Inner-City Ceramics Program in Detroit by Mary Roehm
  • Clay in the Schools: Back Toward the Future by David W. Baker
  • Viewing the Launching Pad: The Arts, Clay, and Education by Wayne Higby
  • A Glance Backward As We Move Ahead by E. Andrew Mills
  • A Roadway to a Future for Clay by Robert H. Gray
Also: Body Building for Potters: A Clay-Blending Formulary - a popular technical article by Jim Robinson; Ed Nash and the American Hand - an interview.


Cover - Vol.17, No.1

Volume 17, Number 1
December, 1988

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Visual Perception - physiology, culture, psychology, and mysticism:

  • Seeing Oneself in the Pot by David Shaner
  • Arts and the Brain by David Hubel
  • Artistic Intelligences by Howard Gardner
  • Drawing on the Artist Within by Betty Edwards
  • The Kizaemon Tea Bowl: A Perceptual Gauntlet Which Has Not Been Picked Up by Anthony G. Barrand
  • Learning to See by Clary Illian
  • Monuments to the Future: The Art of Ed Love by Robert Farris Thompson
  • Ceramics and the Biography of Vision by George Woodman
  • A Room Not Filled by Jonathan Fairbanks
  • Looking with the Heart by Louise Allison Cort
  • The Secret Life of Pots by Jack Troy
  • Changing Channels by Tony Hepburn
  • Perception - Inner and Outer Vision by John Stephenson
  • Perception by Susanne Stephenson
  • Making the Unknown Visible by Jim Melchert
  • The Vision of a Persian Bowl by Beatrice Wood
  • Art and Time by Erich Neumann
  • The Transformation of Vision by Ralph Metzner
  • The Bones of the Bowl by Catharine Wright
  • The Clay Jug by Kabir
Also: The Inventive Beginning in the Creative Works of Leningrad Artists by Vladimir Vasiljkovskii; Peteris Martinson by Ruta Chayupova; Odyssey of a Tilemaker - Farley Tobin talks about public art commissions; Utah - visits with fourteen Utah potters; Pottery and Revolution in Nicaragua by Mika Seeger; A Modern Anagama Kiln by Fred Olsen and Edgar DeForest.


Cover - Vol.17, No.2

Volume 17, Number 2
June, 1989

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Architectural Ceramics - past and present:

  • Architectural Terra Cotta to 1900 by Margaret Henderson Floyd
  • Architectural Terra Cotta: 1900 - 1990 by Susan Tunick
  • Restoration and New Design: Boston Valley Terra Cotta by Drew Krause
  • Guerrilla Mosaics by Susan Brown and Denise Komisarek
  • Installing Studio Architectural Ceramics by Peter King
  • Architectural Ceramics - profiles of twenty artists and studios
Also: And/Or: Hispanic Art, American Culture by John Beardsley; Hispanic Ceramic Artists - interviews with twelve artists in Los Angeles and Miami; The Ceramics of Vladimir Sergeevich Vasilkovskij by Michael Andreevich Kopylkov; Radon in the Potter's Studio by John B. Langley.


Cover - Vol.18, No.1

Volume 18, Number 1
December, 1989

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Visions and Prophecies - four sets of articles that address the questions, "Is the functional potter surviving? If not, why not? How do institutions affect perceptions of function? What lies ahead?"

Survival of Function:
  • Redefining Security by Jeff Oestreich
  • Making Pots from the Heart by Ellen Shankin
  • Long-distance Runner by Stephen Hill
  • Knowing What to Keep by Paul Lewing
  • Keeping Handwork Alive by Jan Hoyman and Doug Browe
  • Potting for a Living by Tom Turner
  • Functional Survival by Ron Larsen
  • On Being Better Potters by I.B. Remsen
  • A Viable Means of Living by Susan Bankert
  • Burnout by Jonathan Kaplan
Perspectives on Function:
  • A Professional's View by Ken Ferguson
  • An Academic View by Val M. Cushing
  • A Marketing View by Wendy Rosen
  • A Collective View by Deborah Bedwell
  • An Exhibition View by Phyllis Blair Clark
  • A Collector's View by Thomas G. Turnquist
  • A Museum View by Michael Monroe
  • A Gallery View by Rick Berman
  • A Critic's View by Patricia Malarcher
Economics of Function:
  • Macroeconomics - an interview with David Kotz
  • Surviving Recession by April Aerni
Affirmation of Function:
  • The Potter's Challenge by Mick Casson
  • It Pays to Advertise But You Must Have a Product by Don Reitz
  • Turning Matter into Spirit by Marguerite McIntosh
Also: Look Back: The Decade of the 1980s - a collage; Georgia Clay - The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery by John A. Burrison; Vermont Potters - interviews with thirteen artists; The Road Through Miyama - a story of apprenticeship in Japan by Leila Philip; Daniel Rhodes.


Cover - Vol.18, No.2

Volume 18, Number 2
June, 1990

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Mainstream and the Establishment - on the relationship of craft to modern art:

  • The Mainstream: Dangerous Waters by John Perreault
  • Tradition and the Modern Crafts Establishment by Rob Barnard
  • Promoting the Craft Illusion by Kevin Hluch
  • In [Our] Craft Or Sullen Art by Robert Gray
In Praise of Feet - a look at the feet of fourteen Korean, Chinese, and Japanese pots from the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Commentary by Rob Barnard and Martin Amt; further comments on feet by Malcom Wright, John Glick, Byron Temple, and Ken Pick.

Also: Hawaii - a trip through the islands and visits with potters; Czechoslovak Ceramics - history and modern conditions by Jana Hornekova; Czechoslovakian Ceramics Today by Marion Monk; Circles - a short course in visual design by Richard White; Pyrometer and Pyrometer Assemblies by John Terragni; Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's - an interview; Results of the 1989 Readership Survey.


Cover - Vol.19, No.1

Volume 19, Number 1
December, 1990

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Deep Nature - potters and ecology:

  • Portfolio
  • Silica, Alumina / Rapture and Awe: Revising Clay Imaginatively by Paulus Berensohn, guest editor
  • The Quest: A Curator's View by Jane Kessler
  • Soft Clay / Slow Wheel by Douglass Rankin and Will Ruggles
  • The Secret Life of Clay by Guy Murchie
  • The Spirit of the Earth by Barbara Gonzales
  • Report of a Sighting by George Kokis
  • Making Ripples by Marian Edwards
  • Twilight's Last Gleaming by Barbara Donachy
  • I Am the Village Potter Making Pots at Findhorn by Gay Smith
  • A Glimpse into Pandora's Box: Personal Narrative by Graham Marks
  • The Renewal of Art Through Agriculture by M.C. Richards
  • Good, Wild, Sacred by Gary Snyder
  • I Lift My Head Up from the Wheel by Nick Joerling
  • Finding the Buddha by Shirley Tassencourt
  • The Global Environment Crisis by Rodney M. Fujita and Julie Jetton
  • Pinyon Crest Glazes - cone 10 glazes made with natural materials, from Fred Olsen
Also: Warren MacKenzie: Potter's Potter - an interview; The Nitty-Gritty - a discussion of particle size, mixing, and grinding by Robert Tichane; Cone Three Clay Bodies and Glazes: A Suggestion For the 90's - discussion and recipes by Richard Zakin; An Achievement - honoring six outstanding art teachers.


Cover - Vol.19, No.2

Volume 19, Number 2
June, 1991

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Language of the Lip - a look at the lips of fifteen Chinese, Japanese, European, and African pots from the Cleveland Museum of Art, with commentary by J. Keith Wilson, Judith Salomon, and William C. Brouillard;

Also: Frans Wildenhain: Master of Form by Michael Boylen (also available as a monograph); Archives of American Art by Robert F. Brown; Chariot of Fire: Principles of a Bourry Box Kiln by Gary Hatcher; Conversations with Indiana Potters - visits with 21 artists; Cowan Pottery - a history by Henry Houston Hawley; Water Keeler: Innovating Function - an interview; The Space of Pottery by Paul Mathieu; Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park by Garth Clark; Soviet Ceramic Artists by Frank Boyden; Letter from Nigeria by Charles Counts; Empty Bowls by John Hartom and Lisa Blackburn.


Cover - Vol.20, No.1

Volume 20, Number 1
December, 1991

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Women and Clay - seven sets of articles that focus on different aspects of women and their work in clay. Guest editor: Clary Illian.

The Goddess in Prehistory:
  • The Ancient One by Suzanne Benton
  • The Origins of Ceramics: Figurine Manufactured at Dolni Vestonice, circa 26,000 B.P. by Pamela Vandiver
Critical Overviews:
  • The Crime of Candor: Feminist Art Criticism by Susan Leibovitz Steinman
  • For Women, the Word Is Not Always the Word As We Understand It by Mireille Perron
  • Sexual Discrimination: Thoughts from the Field by Gail Kendall
  • Reflections on a Feminist Aesthetic by Susan Crowell
  • Fear, Loss, and Regeneration by Nancy Fried
Foremothers:
  • Adelaide Alsop Robineau by Frederick Platt
  • Louise McLaughlin's Porcelain by Anita J. Ellis
First Person Narratives:
  • Autobiographical Notes by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
  • Balance and Harmony by Marie Woo
  • Preserving Cultural Identity by Maria Luisa Delgado y Partin
  • The Heart of the Vein by Nora Naranjo-Morse
  • The Voice of a Black Woman by Marva Lee Pitchford Jolly
  • Artist as Environmental Activist by Allison Newsome
  • Working Soft by Paulus Berensohn
Conjugal Relationships:
  • Ann Shaner and Gertrude Ferguson, Wives by Ann Shaner and Gertrude Ferguson
  • Choices: Mothers With Careers in Clay - a conversation with Catharine Hiersoux, Nancy Selvin and Coille Hooven, compiled by Charlotte Speight
Collaborative Environments:
  • Jane Dillon, Mentoree
  • Betty Woodman, Mentor
  • Pam Lau, Student
  • Valerie Otani, Elizabeth Stanek, and Andree Singer Thompson, Collaboration
  • Cheryl and Robert Husby, Collaborative Pottery
Spiritual Journeys:
  • The Healing Process by Nancy Train Smith
  • Lilith - a poem by Suzanne Benton
Also: Raku: The Firing Process - technical information by Steven Branfman; Social Signals Symposium by Jay Lacouture; American Woodfire Conference '91 by Lynn R. Munns; Aids Workshop by Alexandra B. Trub; International Executive Service Corps by Stan Zelinski; Empty Bowls Goes to Washington by John Hartom and Lisa Blackburn.


Cover - Vol.20, No.2

Volume 20, Number 2
June, 1992

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Studio Potter's 20th Anniversary: Looking Backward - Studio Potter revisits sixteen potters originally covered in the first two volumes.

Looking Forward - turning the corner of the twenty-first century and how to get there from here:

  • The Next Twenty Years - Here Comes Everybody! by Robert Gray
  • Future Schlock: Ceramics and the 21st Century by Garth Clark
  • The Age of Individual Ceramics by Tomio Sugaya
  • Preserving the Foundation by Harris Deller
  • Shaping a Vision of the Future by Ted Berger
  • Contemporary European Ceramics by Marie-Therese Coullery
  • Continuity and Rootedness by Philip Rawson
  • Deep Ecology and the Potters in our Planet by Arne Naess
  • Correcting the Answers - seven high school students write about what clay means to them
  • Ceramics Publications - editors of eleven publications speak out on challenges for the future
Computers and Clay:
  • Ceramics and Computers by Richard Burkett
  • Software for DOS Claypersons by Gary Hatcher
  • Computer Aided Thinking About Clay by Richard Zakin
Also: Studio Management Revisited: Reflections on Working in My Studio During the Last Twenty Years by John Glick; The Studio Potter Twentieth Anniversary Collection - a portfolio - B/W photos by Bill Finney; Alaska - visits with 24 potters; Russia: Crisis in the Arts by Ludmilla G. Kromarenko and Helen V. Zaks; Contemporary Eastern European Ceramics by Jimmy Clark; Dzintari Institute, Latvia: Ceramic Symposium, Fall 1991 by Nancy Selvage.




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