Pottery

While we continue with industrial production, it is important to keep some of the joys of the hand-crafted for human beings.
These creations are often exchanged or bartered and create a new kind of contemporary culture that celebrates all that is hand-crafted with care.
In a faceless, feeling-less, scenario enabled by artificial intelligence, it is such a culture that reaffirms the human touch.

Course Objectives
To offer a space for meditative work.
To develop proficiency on the wheel.

Courses
DE119 Material Exploration (Pottery)
Basics of Pottery is no longer a part of this course.
DE110 Form Exploration in Pottery
Understanding Clay Bodies (terracotta, stoneware, porecelain)
Hand-shaped forms
Centering
Making a Cylinder
Making a kulhar and a tea-cup
History of Ceramics
Centering, Making cylinders
Making identical bowls
Form exploration
History of Ceramics
Contemporary Ceramics

Select References
Books
Clay and Glazes for the Potter, Daniel Rhodes
Yanagi Soetsu, The Unknown Craftsman, Kodansha, USA, 1984
New Handbook for Potters, Nirmala Patwardhan
Daly Greg, Developing Glazes, Bloomsbury, 2014
Harvey David, Imaginative Pottery, Pitman, London, 1976
Frazier Thelms, The Art and Craft of Ceramic Sculpture, Applied Science Publishers, UK, 1973
Troy Jack, Salt Glazed Ceramics, Watson-Guptill, New York, 1977
Bitters Stan, Environmental Ceramics, Van-Nostrand-Reinhold, 1976
Blackman Audrey, Rolled Potter Figures, Pitman, London, 1978
Tregear Mary, Song Ceramics, Thames and Hudson, UK, 1982
Preaud Tamara, Ceramics of the 20th Century, Rizzoli, 1982
Clark Garth, A Century of Ceramics in the US, E.P>Dutton, 1979
Goode John, Irish Ceramics, Nicholoson, Ireland, 2005
Rhodes Daniel, Pottery Form, Pitman, London, 1997
Singh Gurucharan, Pottery in India, Vikas Publishing, 1979

Journals and Magazines
Indian Ceramic Quarterly, Delhi Blue Pottery Trust
Potters Newsletter

Websites
www.delhibluepotterytrust.com
www.simonleachceramics.com
www.londonpotters.com