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All rights reserved January 1985 3 4 C eramics Monthly Ceramics Monthly Volume 33, Number 1 January 1985 Feature Articles Silla by Herb Schumacher........................................ 27 Dutch Tiles.............................................................. 30 Translucent Tile Porcelain by Richard Zakin.............................................. 32 Richard Batterham 33 Portfolio: Jens Morrison by Elaine Levin.................................................. 35 Welsh Exhibition.................................................... 41 Paul Rozman.......................................................... 42 Jim Melchert by William Hunt................................................ 44 Brook Le Van......................................................... 48 Spain’s Joan Cots..................................................... 49 Cone 2-4 Oxidation Glazes by Lynne Melchior............................................ 52 Departments Letters..................................................................... 7 Itinerary.................................................................. 11 Film & Video 15 Where to Show....................................................... 17 Suggestions............................................................. 21 Questions................................................................. 23 Comment: Tolerance and Intolerance by Edwin Todd................................................... 25 News & Retrospect................................................ 57 New Books............................................................... 75 Technical: What Size Burners? How Much Gas? by Robert D. Schmitz........................................ 76 Classified Advertising........................................... 78 Index to Advertisers.............................................. 80 The Cover Arnold Zimmerman’s studio. This Brooklyn ceramist builds forms from thick coils, then deeply carves and shapes them. Works by the artist were featured in a recent solo exhibition at Hadler-Rodriguez gallery, New York City. January 1985 5 6 C eramics Monthly Letters Relevant Pricing craftsmanship such as Warren MacKenzie’s trated at the result and they blamed me, I Thanks for [publishing] the November let­ “mere” craft? To my mind the best pottery blamed them, then we all blamed the man­ ter from Thomas Feyrer, who wants to see is crafted. But then I don’t understand Pi­ ufacturer with no result. more work by basement potters. Whether in­ casso either. I still love Ceramics Monthly Someone who sold his pottery workshop nocently or slyly, he invites us to see the even though they blow it sometimes. Don’t recently found an old bottle of wax resist and connection between an uncertain future and we all. gave it to me. We were all happy again; things the failure to price goods by labor content. Marion Burmeister came out just as we wanted them to. But It’s that same disconnectedness between time Pennsburg, Pa. what do I do when this runs out? My, oh spent and earnings which leads the public my, there is always something. attending small-scale local fairs to expect I think the art criticism as exemplified in Belle Steinberg bargain prices for craftwork. That of course the November issue is pretentious gibberish. Los Angeles drives away those who can travel to the large I dislike being told what to think about a three- and four-day fairs to get professional piece, and prefer to have the work speak for Can Richard Meyer find a replacement? treatment for professional work. Local fairs, itself. Real information about the artists, their Will the Southern California rep help? Tune an important outlet for many a crafter who lives, techniques, their own feelings about in next month to “As the Wheel Turns.” works at home, fight an uphill battle—if they their work (expressed in English, not gib­ Sarah Howe fight at all—to win the attendance of the berish) is interesting and also helpful. Brooklyn dedicated craft buyers even in their own com­ Jean Silverman munities. Newmarket, N.H. Time has taken its toll on my knees and If one’s pottery earnings are irrelevant to knuckles and I no longer pot, so I can’t try the mortgage payment, that is no excuse for In regard to Ted Randall’s article, “Being this out myself—but has anyone tried paste irrelevant pricing. If part-time potters would and Meaning”: CM has superseded “in house” wax as a substitute for wax resist, or Cer do cost accounting as if clay were a liveli­ debate and offered an intelligent, articulate, A? It does stick to leather-hard clay, so might hood, and then abide by the results, they could passionate and oh so pertinent recall to the do for inlay work, and if worked up with a begin to ask seriously about the future. premise on which we should be making pots— little turpentine, can be brushed. Professional pricing enables one to take the a premise which does indeed leave room for Laurie Sparer next step, accepting a wholesale order or significant innovation. Bravo Ted Randall. Minneapolis working with a gallery at 40% commission. Richard DeVore Though I work in the basement and travel Fort Collins, Colo. mainly between the grocery store and my Tile Installations children’s music rehearsals, I price my pots I’ve been a subscriber to Ceramics Month­ I have recently noticed a number of letters as if I were potting full time. Our friends are ly for many years, probably 13 or 14 to be addressed to the technical staff concerning very supportive. With my pricing not driven more specific. I have enjoyed many fine ar­ ceramic tile installations. Doing an instal­ by economic necessity, I sometimes consider ticles, glaze formulas, etc. However, the last lation, especially on vertical surfaces with that I am perpetrating an enormous charade. few years I have been very disappointed with large or heavy handmade tile, can be a dif­ But to do otherwise would be absolutely un­ it and the issue I received today was down­ ficult proposition for someone not trained in fair to potters who, alone or with the help right disgusting. Is this CM’s idea of beauty such techniques. A qualified tile installer is of their families, choose to make pots their and art? Practically the whole issue is ded­ going to be able to do a structurally sound sole income. icated to gross art and the picture entitled job that will last for the life of the building. Marcia Kindlmann “Butchershop” is very offensive. Readers should contact the Ceramic Tile Guilford, Conn. Lois Willet Institute of America, 700 North Virgil Av­ Salem, Ore. enue, Los Angeles, California 90029, (213) November Issue 660-1911; Chicago Tile Institute, 1311 Mer­ CM blew it in the November issue. I haunt Arneson’s Ground Zero chandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois 60654, (312) the mail box in anticipation of the arrival of Robert Arneson’s terrifying imagery cuts 467-1640; Tile Council of America, Box 326, CM, but was disappointed this month. Hav­ through useless rhetoric and reveals the nu­ Princeton, New Jersey 08542, (609) 921 - ing discovered a correlation between the cov­ clear threat in its true and evil form.