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Making your own glazes is a fascinating and rewarding process, even more so when making them from collected ingredients. With little equipment and following a few basic principles, it is possible to harvest glaze ingredients from your local environment, such as clay, subsoil, plants and seashells, to achieve beautiful results in the kiln. Whether you wish to make an entire glaze using collected materials, or just want to use them as additions to existing base recipes, Miranda Forrest explains how to source and prepare natural ingredients, from degraded rocks to seaweed, as well as giving step-by-step instructions for mixing a glaze, testing samples, and finally applying glazes and firing your work. Contributions from contemporary ceramicists who use natural glaze ingredients give a detailed insight into their working methods and intriguing results. Encouraging experimentation and a creative approach, Natural Glazes is a vital resource for anyone wishing to work in a more natural, sustainable way to develop their unique glaze effects.

Artists are increasingly interested in producing work that is not only beautifully designed and produced, but is also environmentally friendly and socially responsible. In Sustainable Ceramics, pioneer Robert Harrison draws on more than four decades of making, and a wealth of experience shared by other artists to present practical possibilities for ceramic artists.This book covers all the factors to consider when going ''green'', from fuels and alternative firing technology to energy-saving methods, sustainable ways to collect and use clay itself, and ways to deal with or recycle waste materials and save water. He suggests simple and achievable methods by which to reduce the carbon footprint of ceramic art, and draws on interviews and examples throughout by practitioners who reclaim, reuse and recycle in their studio or work.Sustainable Ceramics is an essential resource for any ceramicist, studio or school looking for ideas on how to reduce the impact of their practice on the environment.

French artist and filmmaker Philippe Parreno is known to have radically redefined the exhibition experience by exploring its possibilities as a coherent object rather than a collection of individual works. In the scripted spaces of his shows, a series of events unfolds, with orchestrated sound and image heightening the sensory experience. This book is published on the occasion of CAC Malagas showing of TV Channel, an installation comprising the projection of seven short films that summarise Parrenos career, from its start in the mid-1980s to his most recent works. Besides numerous installation views, it includes an close reading of the experience by Cyril Beghin.

Este curso de pintura es enormemente entretenido, ágil y apto para cualquier persona. Sam Piyasena y Beverly Philp te instruyen en las técnicas fundamentales y el infinito potencial creativo del leng

ART OF CERAMICS, es un recorrido por el panorama actual del mundo de la cerámica, un material tan delicado y a su vez llamativo, que hace de cada trabajo una maravillosa pieza de arte. En las siguie

New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation.The definitive book on contemporary sculpture and installation art from around the world.Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation is an up-to-the-minute survey of current global developments in contemporary sculpture and its close relative, installation. This vast medium of sculpture continues to be a central pillar of artistic practice, and Vitamin 3-D presents the outstanding artists who are engaging with and pushing the boundaries of the medium.Vitamin 3-D follows the success of Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing and Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, presenting a cross-generational survey of contemporary artists from 27 countries. Chosen from more than 500 nominations by significant international critics, curators, art historians and creative writers, Vitamin 3-Ds 117 established and emerging artists were selected on the basis that they have made a significant contribution to sculpture and installation (in their broadest sense) in the last five years.Vitamin 3-D allows the reader to look at the medium in detail, to study sculptures unique properties in relation to itself, in relation to contemporary art and in relation to the world at large. An ongoing fascination with the key issues of modern sculpture, from the readymade to the specific object, today drives many artists to return to those issues again and again, with fresh and often surprising results.In her evocative introductory essay for Vitamin 3-D, Anne Ellegood uses Rosalind Krausss landmark 1978 essay Sculpture in the Expanded Field as the basis to explore the wildly inclusive breadth and depth of work that the term sculpture can now be applied to within contemporary practice and the key historical moments that serve as the precedents for what we now understand as both sculpture and installation.Sculpture continues to strike out into new territory, harnessing the medium to confront todays commodity world in its own materials or conjuring visionary new objects and environments like nothing seen before. Vitamin 3-D contributes to these international debates on contemporary sculpture and installation while providing an accessible overview and a concise reference book in an innovative design that embodies the materiality of its subject.

Los materiales empleados en la conservación y restauración del patrimonio, al igual que la disciplina misma, han evolucionado de manera vertiginosa en los últimos años: en la actualidad, el número y variedad de estos productos es a menudo desbordante. En este diccionario, los autores han recopilado, revisado y puesto al dia la informacion mas importante sobre estos materiales, poniendola a disposicion del lector en una comoda fuente de consulta con cerca de 1.400 voces, complementadas por un gran numero de ilustraciones, tablas y apendices, ademas de un valioso indice tematico.Esta obra destaca por su amplitud, fruto de un importante esfuerzo de investigacion y busqueda, y, sobre todo, por su accesibilidad y claridad expositiva. Asi, en el caso de los terminos de fisica y quimica empleados en restauracion, junto a sustancias, productos e instrumentos, se han incluido una serie de nociones auxiliares fundamentales que facilitan su comprension. Por otro lado, en buena parte de los materiales de uso frecuente, los autores han reflejado los aspectos mas utiles para la practica de la conservacion y restauracion de obras de arte, tales como su formulacion o su modo de aplicacion. Todo ello hace del Diccionario de materiales de la restauracion una obra de referencia imprescindible para estudiosos y profesionales de la restauracion, asi como una inestimable fuente de informacion para cualquier persona interesada por esta fascinante disciplina.

This is a beginner''s guide to modelling heads and faces in clay. Filled with step-by-step sequences, it shows how to achieve lifelike heads of men, women and children as well as how to show emotion on the faces. This is a beginner''s guide to modelling heads and faces in clay.Filled with step-by-step sequences, it shows how to achieve lifelike heads of men, women and children as well as how to show emotion on the faces. It also shows how to colour and fire the clay as well as how to create patinas. All in all, it is an excellent, easily accessible guide to modelling heads in clay.

Una selección de imágenes que rinden tributo a la extraordinaria herencia visual de la maison desde los orígenes de la maison hasta la actualidad. En 2009, con motivo del 125 aniversario de Bulgari,