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Ceramics Monthly (ISSN 0009-0329) Is Published Monthly Except July and August by Professional Publications, Inc.—S William C. Hunt........................................Editor Barbara Tipton...................... Associate Editor Robert L. Creager........................ Art Director Ruth C. Butler............................. Copy Editor Valentina Rojo...................... Editorial Assistant Mary Rushley.............. Circulation Manager Connie Belcher .... Advertising Manager Spencer L. Davis.............................. Publisher Editorial, Advertising and Circulation Offices 1609 Northwest Boulevard, Box 12448, Columbus, Ohio 43212 (614) 488-8236 West Coast Advertising Representative: Joseph Mervish Associates, 12512 Chandler Boulevard, No. 202, North Hollywood, California 91607 (213) 877-7556 Ceramics Monthly (ISSN 0009-0329) is published monthly except July and August by Professional Publications, Inc.—S. L. Davis, Pres.; P. S. 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All rights reserved October 1982 3 4 C eramics Monthly Ceramics Monthly Volume 30, Number 8 October 1982 Feature Articles An Essay on Pottery by Michael Cardew............................................... 24 Val Cushing: New Work........................................... 27 A Survey of Modern Japanese Pottery, Part 1 by Brian Moeran................................................... 30 The May Show........................................................... 33 Westwood Clay National.......................................... 34 Perlite Bodies by William Hunt.................................................... 38 Painterly Ceramics ................................................... 41 Painted Surfaces........................................................ 44 David Middlebrook Exhibition................................ 46 Egyptian Paste by Dick Studley..................................................... 47 The Craftsman’s Way............................................... 50 A Castable Venturi Burner by W. Lowell Baker............................................. 54 Glaze Masking by Richard Schneider........................................... 85 Departments Letters to the Editor.................................................. 7 Where to Show........................................................... 11 Suggestions................................................................. 13 Questions.................................................................... 15 Itinerary..................................................................... 17 Comment: No Vacancy by R. Clayton Baker.............................................. 23 New Books.................................................................. 59 News & Retrospect.................................................... 63 Classified Advertising............................................... 86 Index to Advertisers.................................................. 88 The Cover Ceramic ware from the collection of British potter Michael Cardew, recently exhibited by the British Crafts Council's new gallery in London. Shown are: upper left, platter, 1929, slip-trailed earthenware, 18½ inches in diameter, by Bernard Leach; upper right (detail) stoneware bottle, 1935, thrown, 16 inches in height, by William Staite Murray; bottle with cut sides, circa 1970, matt glazed, 10½ inches in height, by Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie; grain storage jar, thrown and iron slip glazed with sgraffito decoration, by Michael Cardew. The latter’s essay on pottery begins on page 24. Photo: courtesy of Crafts Council. October 1982 5 6 C eramics Monthly Letters The Summer Portfolio dunked a bisque fired object into a bucket of CM’s American Viewpoint The Dorothy Hafner portfolio is really glaze, I realized I controlled the location of My students and I find Ceramics Monthly beautiful and well done—wonderful photo­ the terminator line. By dunking the object in germane in expressing the American ceramic graphs, very informative. two or more buckets of glaze I could create perspective, crucial to our studies at the fur­ Tom Turner multiple terminator lines with combined ther education level. Lake Mary, Fla. glazes on the pot’s surface. Historically, art Christine Rowe has taken from technology; once again art London Weighty Subject may progress by borrowing from aerospace In the captions under photos of people’s concepts. Sometimes it seems CM puts too much work, I would be interested in knowing the Charles A. Gillespie emphasis on Anglo and American potters. It weight of the pieces as well as the height and Titusville, Fla. Continued width and the way the object was made. Debra J. Shulansky Cambridge, Mass. Aerospace Ceramics Jargon When scientists and engineers needed to describe surface locations of space shuttle tiles, previous ceramics vernacular proved inade­ quate, and an aerospace technology jargon developed that may have application to the ceramics field. The side of a rectangular tile which is not an outer facing side is the inner mold line (IML) and is the surface bonded to the metal substructure of the space shuttle. ^\structure surface If the surface is a compound curve, such as the inside shape of a bowl, the interior sur­ face volume is the IML. The sides of a rectangular tile exposed to the air or heat flow are designated the outer mold line (OML). This would be the same as the exterior clay wall of a bowl. The big­ gest discovery for me as a ceramist occurred when I realized the OML design contour and the IML design contour no longer had to be parallel as they had been on thin-walled, tra­ ditional vessels. On a space shuttle, the OML is coated with glaze, but the IML is not coated. The edge of the glaze coating on the OML is known as the terminator line. When a potter dips a bowl in glaze, the foot is usually left unglazed; the edge of this glaze coating could also be known as a terminator line. As I October 1982 7 8 C eramics Monthly Letters ing when I say CM provides very little food (skilled workmanship and usefulness) and for thought in its increasingly extensive cov­ art (valued because of beauty and because a would be very nice to see more international erage of ceramic objects and object makers. person enjoys being with it)? Spontaneity and coverage. We are potters. Give us a potter’s magazine. technical expertise should not conflict, but Jeffrey Andrews Huff Jones should complement and enforce each other. Columbus, Ohio Drain, Ore. The artist/potter should seek to become a master of his craft as well as a producer of I am a studio potter, working in a small I appreciate the direction and growth in beautiful, expressive, original and/or useful town on the edge of the Navajo Nation. There the magazine over the last decade. CM has objects. are few potters out here, and of those few resisted the trend to become a slick, urban- Alice D.T. Rawles most are Indians, so the only current expo­ oriented publication. There are thousands of Portsmouth, Va. sure that I have to the recent directions of us who live in rural areas and depend on contemporary ceramics is through CM. magazines such as this to maintain some con­ Subscribers’ Comments However, the more I am exposed to Indian tact with other potters, and feed the creativity Leave pop art to those who understand pottery, the more I notice its lack of coverage pool. it—Claes Oldenburg et al. in CM. Native Americans are doing some Penny Hoag land S. Barbarich wonderful things with pots these days. Why Farmington, Maine Reno not show the rest of the world? Diane Botnam-Hoover Eschew Intellectual Verbosity CM may occasionally be criticized for so Gallup, N.M. The only part in CM I don’t read very much advertising in the magazine. However, often is the Comment column. It is usually I feel it’s a plus. I can easily find wholesale Walter Dexter written in lofty language and, I feel, over- suppliers for any type of pottery-related item, Reading Walter Dexter’s
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