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Clay de Suzanne Staubach

Clay

Autor Suzanne Staubach
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2013
More than a third of the houses in the world are made of clay. Clay vessels were instrumental in the invention of cooking, wine and beer making, and international trade. Our toilets are made of clay. The first spark plugs were thrown on the potter’s wheel. Clay has played a vital role in the health and beauty fields. Indeed, this humble material was key to many advances in civilization, including the development of agriculture and the invention of baking, architecture, religion, and even the space program. In Clay, Suzanne Staubach takes a lively look at the startling history of the mud beneath our feet. Told with verve and erudition, this story will ensure you won’t see the world around you in quite the same way after reading the book.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781611685039
ISBN-10: 1611685036
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 31 halftones
Dimensiuni: 139 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University Press of New England

Notă biografică

SUZANNE STAUBACH is a writer, potter, and bookseller, and the author of Guy Wolff: Master Potter in the Garden.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments • Cooking Pots and Storage Jars: Porridge, Ale, and International Commerce • Hearth and Home: Ovens, Heat, and the Invention of Baking • The First Machine and the Development of an Industry • Set the Table: From a Simple Bowl to a 2,200-Piece Dinner Set • A Word or Two: The Invention of Writing and Books • The Most Popular Building Material: Cities, Walls, and Floors of Mud • Sanitation: A Nice Hot Bath, a Drink of Water, and Don’t Forget to Flush • Farming Made East: Irrigation, Propagation, and Incubation • Electricity, Transportation, and Rocket Science • To Your Health! • Art, Toys, Gods, Goddesses, and Fertility • A Fitting Death: Urns, Gravestones, Companions, and Thieves • Conclusion • Appendix A: How to Make Your Own Pinch Pot • Appendix B: Museums • Notes • Bibliography • Credits

Recenzii

"These poems seem to 'pass through another body with cloud-like ease,' as they reveal the movement from skin to world, lump of clay to wall, from pot shard to bone. Their intimate exchanges with touch bring us back to our senses, where we feel the empty space and the vessel itself, the way language holds meaning, beautifully moving us to 'the not-yet-conceived/thought of the under leaf.'” 

"What is a bowl? A vase? Any thrown vessel? Is it not, above all, an envelope for emptiness? And what is it, then, to leave that vessel empty? The courage of emptiness—to welcome it, to plumb it, and above all, to feel it with the fingertips—drives this hybrid text in which memoir, quotation, and gorgeous lyricism track a network of inter-cultural traditions all based on clay. Ronk finds an aerial lightness in this famously heavy material while simultaneously, through it, celebrating the weight of the world."

"In this vibrant encomium to fragility and what endures, Ronk engages the practice of pottery, an 'ancient material language, each letter felt by hand.' Like Morandi, whose presence is vivid here, Ronk has a deep, abiding respect for objects in their unfolding, as they 'extend beyond' and 'darkly through,' their textures curved 'around the zero of air.' Admixed with citations and still-life photographs, Clay is a meditation on being and touch, reminding us that ‘human’ and ‘earth’ emerge from a single root. A projective verse of the body and wheel, of tenmoku and celadon, this book spins lyrically inwardly, desirous of 'holding emptiness itself.'"