The Ceramic Surface

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ISBN: 9780812237016 | 0812237013
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/21/2002

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Noted ceramicist Matthias Ostermann presents an exploration of contemporary techniques in ceramic surface decoration, both conventional and unconventional. The book considers a wide variety of techniques for making, decorating, and firing, as well as the full spectrum of clays and firing temperatures.

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction

(4)

Foreword One: Catherine Hess

(4)

Superficial but not trivial

The Ceramic Surface from Past to Present

Foreword Two: David Whiting

(6)

Patterns of change

Ceramic Decoration in the Studio since the Second World War

Manipulated clay surface

(28)

Distorted, fragmented, thrown and altered, poured, pinched, coiled, cut, faceted, fluted, carved, press-mould additions, cutout, incised, pierced, clay sgraffito, impressed, texture-paddled, eroded, stamped, sprigged, combed

Colour in clay

(12)

Clay mosaic, neriage, nerikomi (millefiori), lamination, lamination and slicing, poured coloured slips, clay inlay (mishima)

Dry-surface decoration

(18)

Stains and oxides, air-brushing, dry slips, terra sigillata, vitreous engobes, slip sgraffito and carving, slip inlay, layered slips and wiped-down glazes

Underglaze techniques

(24)

Brushed, painted, poured, trailed, stippled, air-brushed coloured slips and underglaze colours under transparent and coloured glazes, cobalt and oxide painting under glaze, hakeme slip and sgraffito under glaze, sgraffito and carved slips under glaze, photocopying and serigraphic screenprinting under glaze

Glazes used for effect

(16)

Brushed, painted, poured, trailed, sponge-printed and overlapped glazes, saturated colour glaze, underfired glaze, matt-surface glazes, crackle glaze, crystalline glaze, oil spot glaze, salt-glaze, crawling Shino glaze, raku glaze

In-Glaze painting

113

(12)

Maiolica: wet-blending and sgraffito, brush line-drawing, on-surface dry smudging, cobalt in-glaze painting, use of coperta, use of black underglaze, high-fire oxides

Resists and masking techniques

125

(20)

Shellac resists, wax, wax emulsion, cuerda seca, latex, paper stencils, tape resists

Third-firing on-glaze techniques

145

(20)

Oxidation lustre, lustre resists, reduction lustre, overglaze enamels (china paints), third-firing stains and sgraffito, transfers (decals), photo transfers and digitally manipulated imagery

Fire, smoke and ash surfaces

165

(12)

Raku firing, smoke firing and burnishing, Anagama firing and ash effects, wood-fired glaze effects

Unconventional approaches

177

(19)

Use of organic materials, use of found objects, use of non-ceramic materials (acrylics, urethane, detergent, wax), sand-blasted and eroded surfaces, acid-etching, faux-shards, gold leaf

Glossary of Terms and Techniques

196

(2)

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