With over 200 full-color photographs of traditional pottery around the world, Global Clay is sure to become a classic for all who love art and pottery and all who are intrigued by the human commonalities revealed through art.
HENRY GLASSIE, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has done fieldwork on five continents, written twenty books, and received many awards for his work, including the Chicago Folklore Prize, the Haney Prize in the Social Sciences, the Cummings Award of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, the Nigerian Studies Association Book Award, the Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Award from the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, the Friend of Bangladesh Award from the Fe
Die weltberühmte Portlandvase als globale »Influencerin« für Kunst und Keramik
With over 200 full-color photographs of traditional pottery around the world, Global Clay is sure to become a classic for all who love art and pottery and all who are intrigued by the human commonalities revealed through art.
— Showcases the lives and work of individual Black South African artists, mostly women, whose contributions and accomplishments have not been well recognized. —Offers the most complex and richest analysis of Zulu beer pots to date, by examining their history and significance from multiple vantage points, ranging from the art market to the aesthetics and family connections of individual potters. —Approaches Zulu pottery making not to define a normative style but to treat ceramic production as
HENRY GLASSIE, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has done fieldwork on five continents, written twenty books, and received many awards for his work, including the Chicago Folklore Prize, the Haney Prize in the Social Sciences, the Cummings Award of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, the Nigerian Studies Association Book Award, the Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Award from the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, the Friend of Bangladesh Award from the Fe