Todos los grandes escultores aprendieron su oficio con la arcilla, ya que es un material que permite corregir cuantos errores puedan cometerse durante el modelado. En este manual aprenderá todos sus secretos Casi sin proponérselo, conocerá los materiales, los utensilios, las técnicas de modelado, la utilización del torno y los moldes, y los métodos de decoración, como el grabado, la impresión o la perforación Empezará por los ejemplos más...

An icon in the Art Nouveau movement, Émile Gallé (1846-1904) sought to portray the beauty and simplicity of nature in his glass art. His designs, referred to as "poetry in glass," range from fine pottery to jewelry to furniture. Everything Gallé produced contains traces of his masterful technique which reflects his innovativeness as an artist and his skill as a designer. In this rich text, Gallé unravels the beauty and ingenuity found within his...

Jean Anderson's new cookbook deliciously brings together two of her lifelong passions-great food and North Carolina pottery. Fans of both will celebrate. While always meant for one another, pottery and cooking are enjoying a new romance-many potters have introduced designs, glazes, and techniques that make pottery more versatile, while others continue making the traditional pie plates, casseroles, jugs, and mugs that made the state's pottery famous....

Siempre tuve dificultades para desarrollar el vidriado, pero una vez que aprendí estos secretos... ¿Es usted un artista de la cerámica que tiene dificultades para desarrollar el vidriado? ¿Tiene una relación de amor-odio con el vidriado? ¿Se frustra cuando el esmalte no sale bien y arruina su pieza de cerámica? ¿Está cansado de perder el tiempo con esmaltes de mala calidad? Yo, el autor, compartiré el secreto para obtener los esmaltes que...

From the Middle Ages to contemporary times, decorative art can be defi ned by the artistic materials, designs and objects used in both architecture and interior design. Similar to many art forms decorative art continues to evolve, originating with pieces as simple as a chair, noted for its utility, to purely ornamental objects, celebrated for their aesthetic beauty. Decorative Art aims to eulogize these often undervalued objects by giving praise to...

When this book first appeared in 1996, it was "Pottery 101," a basic introduction to the subject. It served as an art book, a history book, and a reference book, but also fun to read, beautiful to look at, and filled with good humor and good sense. After twenty years of faithful service, it's been expanded and brought up-to-date with photographs of more than 1,600 pots from more than 1,600 years. It shows every pottery-producing group in the Southwest,...

Partez à la découverte de la poterie avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! On distingue deux catégories essentielles de poteries : la poterie tendre et la poterie dure. C'est la poterie tendre qui apparaît d'abord, dès l'époque néolithique. Les poteries tendres sont caractérisées par la contexture de leur pâte argilo-sableuse, plus ou moins compacte, mais toujours ... Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir plus...

Hand-made style for outdoor living   Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn't have to! This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric. The 23 step-by-step projects are affordable, and most importantly, gorgeous. They include new spins on old favorites, like the cinderblock garden and...

Art Nouveau gives a name to the decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum it left behind, Art Nouveau was at the heart of a "renaissance" in the decorative arts. The primary objective of the movement was the creation of a new aesthetic of nature through a return to the study of natural subjects. In order to achieve this, artists such as...

African Pottery Roulettes Past and Present considers ethnographic, museological, and archaeological approaches to pottery-decorating tools called roulettes, that is to say, short lengths of fibre or wood that are rolled over the surface of a vessel for decoration. This book sets out, for the first time, a solid typology for the classification of African pottery decorated with such tools, and forges a consensus on common methodology and standards....