What Makes a Potter: Functional Pottery in America Today

by Janet Koplos

Why are people still handmaking utilitarian pottery in the 21st century? Doesn't industrial production take care of all our storage and cooking and serving needs? Yet, in all corners of the US, pottery is being discovered, studied, developed, produced, sold, collected, used, displayed, preserved, and passed down. Answers to these questions are vividly realized in the words of potters themselves--funny, philosophical, intense, and inspiring life narratives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764358111
• ISBN13: 9780764358111
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Schiffer Craft
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 10.0"