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"It is rare to find a book on art that presents complex aesthetic principles in clear readable form. Ceramics, by Philip Rawson, is such a book. I discovered it ten years ago, and today my well-worn copy has scarcely a page on which some statement is not underlined and starred."-Wayne Higb...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1984.
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| Edición: | 1st pbk. ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Part I: General Considerations
- Introduction
- The Existential Base
- The Role of Technology
- Memory-Traces and Meaning
- Tactile Values
- Part II: Techniques
- The Material
- Forming: General Hand-Modelling and Beating
- Burnishing
- Wheel-Throwing
- Moulding
- Cutting, etc.
- Turning
- Drying
- Firing
- Kilns
- Slips and Glazes
- Part III: Symbolism of Form
- Ceramics as Treasure
- Life Functions
- Imitation
- Ceremonial Tactile Order
- Tactile Texture
- Other Sense Dimensions
- Visual Shape
- Morphology
- Body Images
- The Expression of Ceramic Shape
- Articulation of Units of Shape
- The Modes of Space
- Shape Criteria
- Colour: General
- Colour and Gloss
- Individual Colours Black
- White
- Blue: and Complementary After-Images
- Blue-Green and Green: Complex Colours
- Yellows
- Reds
- Lustre
- Surface Design: General
- Graphic Emblems
- Floral Decoratlon
- Rhythm in Decoratlon
- Pictorial Designs
- Frieze Depth Perspective Pictorialism
- Far Eastern Pictorial Space
- Pot Surface and iictual Space
- Metaphor and Conceit
- Ceramics and Total Environment
- Potter's Space
- Ceramlc Sculpture
- Far Eastern Ceramic Sculpture