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Summary:
Displayed on each page are bowls that reinterpret the form, and use techniques from across the globe and through the centuries. More importantly, every piece, such as Kate Maury’s wheel-thrown porcelain, Stephen F. Fabrico’s slab-built bowl with handles, and Ruchika Madan’s stoneware fruit bowl, testifies to the artist’s boundless inventiveness. Captions give each bowl’s size, with details on its material and glazes.
Customer Reviews:
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Wonderful and inspiring book, not for recipes
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This is a great book for inspiration. I love the photos and descriptions. This is not the book for the how-to lessons, but is great eye-candy for any artist working with a bowl form.
Timeless Designs
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Beautifully presented, with 500 timeless ideas and references. If you are a potter and looking for inspiration - this book is a gold mine.
Inspiration from 500 beautiful clay bowls
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I'm a clay artist who does hand building...My teacher brought in this book to share with our pottery class. I and the rest of the class were simply blown away by the originality and brilliance of these clay artists. We spent half the class passing the book around and saying to one anothr "how about THIS one?" None of us wanted to put the book down and get back to working on our own pieces.
The book is quite reasonable in price and I was so captivated by these beautiful photographs that I went ahead and bought the the other two books in the series which are specific to animals and teapots...The photographs on each page are simply spectacular...memorable....something I wouldn't directly copy in my own work, but much of it is just insipirational...and informative. Description of how the piece was fired...the method for it's execution (whether hand or wheel built). These books are a collection of the most original works I've ever seen. Although I don't build animals of out clay, I'm as thrilled to own each book from this series as I am "500 Bowls".
Inspired!
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This book is beautifully photgraphed, like all the 500 series books, and weather you put it on your coffee table or in your studio, it lights up the imagination and inspires the artist.
beautiful simple bowls
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It is the simplicity of the bowl on the cover that draw us in, though it is difficult, as there is no cover credit in the edition I own, to find who that artist is. Deep inside we find that bowl and another by potter/artist Judy Motzkin. Patient searching pays off. This elegant little book, with this elegant saggar fired bowl on the cover is a treasure.
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