Finding One's Way with Clay: Pinched Pottery and the Color of Clay

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Simon and Schuster, 1972 - Art - 159 pages
A potter explains the improtance of imagination and emotions in creating bowls and pots and discusses color tones and techniques for achieving dramatic effects with clay. Glossary. Bibliog.

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Contents

Authors Preface
17
BUILDING WITH MODULES
65
New GroundA Demonstration of Finding Ones
80
Copyright

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About the author (1972)

Paulus Berensohn was born Paul Bernsohn in Brooklyn, New York on May 14, 1933. He studied dance at the Juilliard School in New York and later Bennington College in Vermont. He also took classes with Merce Cunningham and was used as a demonstrator by Martha Graham when she taught classes. In the early 1950s, he visited the Land commune, a community of artists, and decided to become a potter. He started teaching pottery and journal-making workshops at the Penland School of Crafts in the late 1960s and continued to do so for nearly 40 years. His book, Finding One's Way with Clay, was published in 1972. By the late 1970s, he turned to tapestries as a form of therapy after an illness left him too exhausted to make pottery. He died of a stroke on June 15, 2017 at the age of 84.

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TitleFinding One's Way with Clay: Pinched Pottery and the Color of Clay
A Fireside book
AuthorPaulus Berensohn
PublisherSimon and Schuster, 1972
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedNov 15, 2007
ISBN0671213245, 9780671213244
Length159 pages
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Art / Techniques / Sculpting
Crafts & Hobbies / Pottery & Ceramics
  
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