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POTTERY HANDBOOK

Simon Leach's PotteryHandbook by Simon Leachwith Bruce DehnertThis how-to instructional bookcombines text and large step-by-step photos of core throwing,trimming, assembling, deco-rating, and firing techniqueswith associated video clips ona companion DVD, giving thereader multiple ways to processthe information.

Simon Leach's Pottery Handbook by Simon Leach with BruceDehnert. Hardcover (spiral bound, includes DVD), 240pages. StewartTabori & Chang, an imprint ofAbrams, New York, New York, 2013.www.abramsbooks.com. ISBN: 978-1-61769-022-8.

Infinite Piace: TheCeramic Art of WayneH ig by edited by Peter HeldThis monograph includes textsand essays by Helen W. DruttEnglish, Peter Held, TanyaHarrod, Henry M. Sayre, EzraShales, Carla Coch, and MaryDrach Mclnnes. The book cov-ers Higby's entire career, in bothtexts and images, and discussesthe way that landscape and placehave influenced his work.Infinite Place: The Ceramic Artof Wayne Higby edited by Peter

Held. Hardcover, 216 page, 180 images. Arnoldsche Art Publishers,Stuttgart, Germany and Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe,Arizona, 2013. www.arnoldsche.com. ISBN: 978-3-89790-384-5.

Kathy Venter: LifeThe Gardiner Museumessay by John K. GrandeFocusing on 36 terra-cottafigurative sculptures of everydaywomen, an essay by Grande andan interview with Venter expandon the personal, cultural, and arthistories she references for herlife-size portraits of women atall stages of life.Kathy Venter: Life by John K.Grande. Hardcover, 80 pages,Gardiner Museum, Toronto,Ontario, Canada, 2013. ISBN:978-0-9784999-6-9.

Natural Glazes: Collectingand Makingby Miranda ForrestForrest explains how to sourceand collect materialsdegradedrocks; ash from seaweed, flowers,and different types of wood; ironochre and other colorants fromlocal deposits; as well as local clays.

After discussing how to processthe materials, she explains how totest them either on their own or incombination with clays and glazesthat you already have in the studio.

The New Ceramics Natural Glazes: Collecting and Making byMiranda Forrest. Paperback, 112 pages, l40 color illustrations.University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2013.www.upenn.edu/pennpress. ISBN: 978-0-812-22262-3.

Paperclay: Art and Practiceby Rosette QaultBuilding on her previous book.Paper Clay, Rosette Gault's newbook covers both the basics alongwith intermediate and advancedtechniques for working with thematerial, including creating arma-tures, building figures, and creatingwall-mounted forms. Images ofboth works-in-progress and finishedpieces by other contemporary art-ists who use paperclay are includedthroughout the book.

Paperclay: Art and Practice, by Rosette Gault. Paperback, 160pages, 150color illustrations. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Penn-sylvania, 2013. www.upenn.edu/pennpress. ISBN:978-1-4081-3120-6.

500 Teapots: Voiume 2juried by Jim LawtonThis second volume collects im-ages of sculptural and functionalteapots made roughly between2007 and 2012 by both well-known and emerging artists. Tea-pots were the focus of the first everbook in the 500 series, publishedover 10 years ago. The works inthis new volume show the current

trends in a wide variety of approaches to the form.500 Teapots: Volume 2 juried by Jim Lawton. Paperback, 420 pages.Lark Crafts, an imprint of Sterling Publishing, New York, New York,2013. www.larkcrafts.com. ISBN: 978-1-4547-0398-3.

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