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Author:	Susan Peterson
Subcategory:	Crafts & Hobbies
Language:	English
Publisher:	Overlook Books; 2nd edition (January 1, 1996)
Pages:	400 pages
Category:	Hobbies and Home
Rating:	4.4
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Susan Peterson was Professor Emerita of Ceramics at Hunter College and a practising ceramist whose work has been exhibited throughout the world.

Susan Peterson was Professor Emerita of Ceramics at Hunter College and a practising ceramist whose work has been exhibited throughout the world. She wrote numerous books on ceramics including The Craft and Art of Clay, Contemporary Ceramics and Jun Kaneko. I have been working in clay for over 50 years. I now teach at the local community college. I use this book as my main text for all three levels of Ceramics at my college. It has all the technical information needed to troubleshoot any studio issue. But what sets this book apart from all the general survey books on ceramics are the pictures.

The book contains numerous step-by-step illustrations of all ceramic techniques to guide the beginner, as well as an inspirational portfolio of ceramic pieces from contemporary international potters. Susan Peterson is Professor Emerita of Ceramics at Hunter College at the City University of New York, and is a practising ceramist whose work has been exhibited throughout the world. Her career spans more than fifty years and includes the founding of five ceramics departments at colleges throughout the United States.

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SUSAN PETERSON is one of the foremost figures in ceramic art education in the United States. She has developed ceramic departments and taught at the Wichita Art Association School, the Chouinard Art Institute, the University of Southern California, the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts in California, and Hunter College in New York City, where she is Professor Emerita. Her other books include The Living Tradition of Maria Martinez; Shoji Hamada: A Potter's Way and Works; The Craft and Art of Clay; Contemporary Ceramics; Working in Clay; Smashing Glazes; and Jun Kaneko. Библиографические данные. The Craft and Art of Clay.

Susan Peterson, Jan Peterson. For the more experienced ceramist, there is a wealth of technical detail on things like glaze formulas and temperature conversions which make the book an ideal reference.

Written by a well-known ceramist, this best-selling, comprehensive introduction to ceramics adeptly combines the artist's perspective and spirit of creative inspiration with step-by-step, fully illustrated instruction in the full range of hand, wheel, and plasterwork techniques. Ideal for self-study, it features exceptionally clear explanations; an abundance of black-and-white and full-color illustrations of process sequences, model examples, and ceramic projects; and a convenient-to-use layout--with one topic per page or per two-page spread. Fabrication methods. Design, decoration, and glazing. Clays. Glazes. Firing the ware. The use of computers in ceramics. The marketing of ceramics. Features photos of a great variety of clayworks--from pots to ceramic installations, on site and in galleries; and a portfolio of international artists, with personal statements about their work. For any one interested in the procedures and techniques of working in clay.

Comments:

Undeyn

The Craft and Art of Clay by Susan Peterson, Jan Peterson is the first book I have bought on line. I had borrowed it from the University (I am a 2nd year student at Southern Cross) library and when I found myself extending the loan I thought it would be worth purchasing this book. It is even better now I own it. Its simple approach to this art that I have not done before makes this book refreshingly easy to read. It can be used for looking up specifics and for a general thumb-through, for interest.
As a person new to ceramics I wanted a book that wouldn't talk over my head and I also didn't want to read it through then find it has nothing more to offer.
I have found this book to have both basic and advanced information in an easy to read form. I am very happy to recommend it to every and anyone interested in starting to work with clay for students studying 3D and in particular ceramics and I am sure I will continue refer back to this book, throughout my professional career.

Dodo

This book is a large coffee table type book that is absolutely lovely with beautiful pictures, very interesting - well written and covers most every subject a potter, ceramist, student of the clay, any type artist, would enjoy.

Zeus Wooden

I got this as a text for a college ceramics course, but it is far more than an ordinary text book. Not only is it informative on a variety of ceramic styles and techniques, but features lovely color illustrations of ceramics from a variety of times, places and artistic traditions. It is as much a coffee table book as a text.

Gunos

The book had many pictures of finished products and a lot to read. I am visual and was thinking maybe it would show step by step pictures and how it is done. I have never used clay or done any sort of pottery, so it didn't really help me. I bought it for my class in college, but I never used it. Instead, I just got my hands dirty and learned by doing.

Lynnak

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Chilele

This is a most useful and interesting book for anyone interested in clay.
It provides tons of information on history, process, various techniques, particular artists, and is wonderfully illustrated. It is not only informative but also beautiful to leaf through. I'm glad I sent for it.

Uafrmaine

The product met and exceeded all expectations, as promised and was shipped as well as met all expectations.

This is a great book for anyone who wants to work with clay. It is clearly written with prospective and actual studio potters in mind.

The book originally came out in 1992, and is now in its fourth edition. And, after mentioning some safety issues, it has plenty of instructional material on how to shape clay, and what tools to use. There are sections on hand building: pinching, coil building, and slab building. Then there's plenty about the technique of "throwing" clay on a potter's wheel, with nice sequences of photos. This takes plenty of skill and practice! As the author says, the wheel is very sensuous, rhythmic, and hypnotic. Peterson is always warning us to treat clay properly: if you attack it in one way and then hit it from another direction in the same place, you may find cracks there in firing, induced by the strains you imposed on it. It's simply wrong to overwork clay.

Still, many potters and artists like to produce many objects with the same overall shape. And that means making and using molds made from plaster, and making casting slips, so Peterson shows us quite a bit about these. After this comes a discussion of decoration. This involves artistry and visualization.

There is a good discussion of types of clays, and explanations of what earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain are. We're shown different types of clay bodies, including terra sigillata and raku (a process which requires a clay body that has some dirt mixed in with it to make it porous enough to avoid thermal shock). And there is a wonderful chapter on glazes. Following that, there is plenty about kilns and firing, including using cones, inconel tubes, and pyrometers to measure temperature.

A technical section explains how to do calculations on glazes, and there are charts of coefficients of expansion, data on frits, color charts of clay and glaze combinations, and much more.

There is a historical overview, which includes a discussion of the studio potter movement and the contributions to it from Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. And we see some of the work of Maria Martinez and Lucy Lewis in Pueblo Indian ceramics. There is also an excellent portfolio of interesting works. I especially like some of the low-fire ones.

This is a very useful resource and I highly recommend it.

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