DE698 Introduction to Pottery

An Elective Course for Dual Degree BDes / M.Des Students
This elective has been introduced as M.Des students from different disciplnes expressed an interest
in working with clay and learning the basics of pottery. The course
- begins with handshaping
- introduces the basics of wheel thrown pottery
- engages with the aesthetics of form and socio-cultural underpinnings

Please see [The Potter's Paradox]    [Contemporary Ceramics Education]    [DE698 Course Plan]

Select References
Books
Rhodes Daniel, Pottery Form, , Pitman, 1976
Yanagi Soetsu, The Unknown Craftsman, Kodansha, USA, 1984
Preaud Tamara, Ceramics of the 20th Century, Rizzoli, 1982
Leach Bernard, A Potter's Book, Unicorn, London, 2015 (First published 1940)
Singh Gurucharan, Pottery in India, Vikas Publishing, 1979
Velar Ramu, Geetha V., A Potter's Tale, Tara Books, 2021
Livingstone and Petrie (Eds), Ceramics Reader, Bloomsbury, 2017
Dadlani Poonam, Hands of Clay (Bhimarao Pandit), Pandit Abhay, 2017

Journals and Magazines
MRIN: ICAF Vol 1-4

Websites
Florian Gadsby
Contemporary Potters (Cerafest 2014)
A Brief History of Humankind