Craft Horizons JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1969 $2.00 Potteraipiney Wheel S & CERAMIC EQUIPMENT I
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craft horizons JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1969 $2.00 PotterAipiney Wheel s & CERAMIC EQUIPMENT i Operating from one of the most modern facilities of its kind, A. D. Alpine, Inc. has specialized for more than a quarter of a century in the design and manufac- ture of gas and electric kilns, pottery wheels, and a complete line of ceramic equipment. Alpine supplies professional potters, schools, and institutions, throughout the entire United States. We manufacture forty-eight different models of high fire gas and electric kilns. In pottery wheels we have designed an electronically controlled model with vari- able speed and constant torque, but we still manufacture the old "KICK WHEEL" too. ûzùzêog awziözbfe Also available free of charge is our book- let "Planning a Ceramic Studio or an In- stitutional Ceramic Arts Department." WRITE TODAY Dept. A 353 CORAL CIRCLE EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. 90245 AREA CODE (213) 322-2430 772-2SS7 772-2558 horizons crafJanuary/February 196t9 Vol. XXIX No. 1 4 The Craftsman's World 6 Letters 7 Our Contributors 8 Books 10 Three Austrians and the New Jersey Turnpike by Israel Horovitz 14 The Plastics of Architecture by William Gordy 18 The Plastics of Sculpture: Materials and Techniques by Nicholas Roukes 20 Freda Koblick by Nell Znamierowski 22 Reflections on the Machine by John Lahr 26 The New Generation of Ceramic Artists by Erik Gronborg 30 25th Ceramic National by Jean Delius 36 Exhibitions 53 Calendar 54 Where to Show The Cover: "Phenomena Phoenix Run," polyester resin window by Paul Jenkins, 84" x 36", in the "PLASTIC as Plastic" show at New York's Museum of Contemporary Crafts (November 22-Januaiy 12). In this issue CRAFT HORIZONS presents the second of its two part investigation of the medium. Photograph by John Schiff. Editor-in-Chief Rose Slivka Managing Editor Patricia Dandignac Editorial Assistant Edith Dugmore Advertising Department Wylie Cumbie Editorial Board Robert Beverly Hale William Lescaze Leo Lionni Aileen 0. Webb Ceramics Daniel Rhodes Metal Adda Husted-Andersen Textiles—-— __Li!i Blumenau Wood — Charles V.W. Brooks Bookbinding Polly Lada-Mocarski Published bimonthly and copyrighted 1969 by the American Craftsmen's Council, 16 East 52nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Telephone: PLaza 3-7425. Aileen O. Webb, Chairman of the Board; Kenneth Chorley, Vice-Chairman; Donald L. Wyckoff, Direc- tor; May E. Walter, Secretary; R. Leigh Glover, Treasurer; Joseph P. Fallarlno, Assis- tant Treasurer. Trustees are: Nicholas B. Angel!, Alfred Auerbach, John L. Baringer, Mrs. Lewis G. Carpenter, Mrs. H. Lansing Clute, Mark Ellingson, Robert D. Graff, August Heckscher, Walter H. Kilham, Jr., Jack Lenor Larsen, De Witt Peterkin, Jr., William Snaith, Frank Stanton. Honorary trustees are: Valla Lada-Mocarski, Dorothy Liebes, Edward Wormley. Craftsmen-trustees are: J. Sheldon Carey, Charles Counts, Trude Guermonprez, Kenneth Shores, Peter Wedland, James Wozniak. Membership rates: $10 per year and higher, includes subscription to CRAFT HORIZONS. Single copy: $2. Second class postage paid at New York, N.Y. The complete content of each issue of CRAFT HORIZONS is Indexed In the Art Index and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, available in public libraries. Book reviews published In CRAFT HORIZONS are indexed in Book Review Index. Microfilm, edition is available from Universal Microfilms, 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103. 1969. The job will concentrate on the educational program, the The Craftsman's World teaching of some classes, and will offer opportunities to work with exhibition installations and special programming. Strength in ce- ramics, with a good background in general art eduction and other Focus studio areas are desired. The salary is $6,500 and carries fringe benefits. Applicants should send credentials and references to: New Mexico in late spring, June 7-11, the most beautiful time of Richard Leet, director, Charles H. MacNider Museum, 303 Second the year for this part of the country, will be the scene of ACC's Street, S.E., Mason City, Iowa 50401 . The Virginia Museum of Fifth National Conference. The first such meeting since 1964, it Fine Arts is seeking a professional ceramist for its Resident Crafts- will be held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and man Program, beginning in the fall. Provided with studios and will open with the exhibition arising from ACC's current national classrooms, the resident will lecture-demonstrate in Richmond competition "Young Americans 1969" [see page 54]. With its theme and in the twenty-seven Virginia communities where chapters or entitled "Focus," programs and discussions will be geared to a affiliates of the Museum exist. The craftsman is also given an an- study of the various directions modern craftsmanship in the U.S. nual grant of $3,500 to cover living expenses, supplemented by is taking today. Three specific areas will focus on the factors that income from classes taught. A $500 fund is available for approved influence the development of the craftsman, on the commitments travel for purposes of attending meetings, workshops, etc. Appli- of the craftsman, and on new materials and technology. Trips to cants should send a photograph, a resume, and slides of their work various sites of archaeological interest and meetings with Navaho to: Catherine Ellyson, supervisor, Education Services, Virginia Mu- Indian craftsmen will be additional highlights. Following the con- seum of Fine Arts, Boulevard and Grove Avenue, Richmond, Vir- ference proper, charter flights to Mexico City, Yucatan Peninsula, ginia 23221. ... An opening for an experienced potter in earthen- Juarez, and San Francisco will be available to conferees. Group ware production has become available. Someone is needed to flight rates to Albuquerque from all parts of the country have been reproduce in quantity an extensive collection of complex eigh- arranged for those planning to attend. There will be camp sites teenth-century German and English forms for sale, from which for those who wish to take advantage of the low humidity climate there will be a percentage given plus a regular salary. For detailed and cool nights, while costs for living and dining accommodations information, write: John Bevins, Jr., Curator of Crafts, Old Salem, will be nominal. For more detailed information, see the March/ Inc., Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27108. April CRAFT HORIZONS. New Publications On 1st The Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the U.S. Department of the Bert Stern, photographer extraordinaire, has opened his own Interior has just published a sixty-page study of its Institute of aesthetic supermarket, On 1st, at 1159 First Avenue, New York, American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Founded in 1962^ to peddle everyday objects to people who grub for beauty in the Institute is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, USDI, boutiques. Decorated in Yves Klein ultramarine, On 1st is no as a national training program in the arts for Indian, Eskimo, and thrift shop. The price of the Lichtenstein wrapping paper goes up Aleut youth of the U.S. The publication features a major article, irrationally by the yard—to prevent hoarding. On 1st ostensibly "Cultural Difference as the Basis for Creative Education," by Lloyd "combines for the first time a store and an art gallery," selling New, director of the Institute. A special illustrated section depicts objects as art and providing artists with a new outlet. But the every phase of its arts training program from painting, sculpture, form of the store itself is somehow more interesting than its and the crafts to creative writing, the dance, and dramatic produc- contents, and the Sven Lukin street facade, the space-age control tions. Entitled "Institute of American Indian Art," the price is $.65 console, and the reflecting mirrors on the ceiling are much more and copies may be ordered from the Superintendent of Docu- of a thing than the scarves by Billy Apple, Gerald Laing, and the ments, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. silk-screen Marilyn Monroes that Bert Stern seems to trot in at every available moment. Also pushed are lamps, plastic furniture, and unique contemporary objects to be used in everyday life. Here and There The store has been designed as a contained environment of sound, light, and color that involves the people in it with the The American Institute of Interior Designers, in its 24th Interna- objects on display. The first floor gallery is a spatial capsule, tional Design Awards program, granted a special citation to the covered entirely in blue carpet with no windows to connect the American Craftsmen's Council for its performance as a vigorous visitor with the outside world; it has a feeling of spacelessness. force in encouraging and expanding the role of notable American Merchandise hangs from a crisscross gird on the ceiling and is handcrafts and for demonstrating to industry the contributions lit by a unique system of spotlights and mirrors so that it appears that manual skills and creative craftsmanship can make to indus- to float in mid-air. Going down the spiral staircase, the blue of trial design expressions. On January 5, Donald Wyckoff, executive the gallery gradually changes through the colors of the spectrum vice-president of the ACC, accepted the award in Chicago, at a into the red of the room below (there is real charm in James dinner climaxing the presentation of the twenty-five awards given Byars's multiple garment of scarlet silk, casually flung on the blue for product designs. Also given a special award citation was ACC carpeting). Lighted by gigantic colored light bulbs, this area is trustee Dorothy Liebes for her international influence as a colorist more the conventional store. The clothes can be tried on in a and as an innovator with man-made fibers . The Architectural changing room with a two-way mirror so that the customer con- League of New York has announced its 1969 Arnold W.