9780892814459-0892814454-A Potter's Companion: Imagination, Originality, and Craft

A Potter's Companion: Imagination, Originality, and Craft

ISBN-13: 9780892814459
ISBN-10: 0892814454
Edition: Original ed.
Author: Ronald Larsen
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Park Street Press
Format: Paperback 240 pages
FREE US shipping

Book details

ISBN-13: 9780892814459
ISBN-10: 0892814454
Edition: Original ed.
Author: Ronald Larsen
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Park Street Press
Format: Paperback 240 pages

Summary

A Potter's Companion: Imagination, Originality, and Craft (ISBN-13: 9780892814459 and ISBN-10: 0892814454), written by authors Ronald Larsen, was published by Park Street Press in 1992. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Arts History & Criticism (Ceramics, Arts Other, Meditation, New Age & Spirituality) books. You can easily purchase or rent A Potter's Companion: Imagination, Originality, and Craft (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Arts History & Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

Description


In a celebration of the functional and the handmade, potter Ronald Larsen has gathered an engaging collection of essays, stories, poems, and observations by a wide range of potters, writers, philosophers, and other artisans, exploring the history, aesthetics, and philosophy behind making pots--or anything else--by hand.

Includes, among others, the writings of:
Marguerite Wildenhain--A Potter's Philosophy
Octavio Paz--Use and Contemplation
Lafcadio Hearn--The Tale of the Porcelain-God
John Updike--From the Journal of a Leper
Jamake Highwater--Illusions of Originality
Wallace Stevens--Anecdote of the Jar
Bernard Leach--The Potter's Challenge
Rate this book Rate this book

We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book