Vocabulary Beginning Ceramics

First half Semester 1

Second Half Semester 1

Intermediate (incomplete list)

 

bat

alumina

chuck

 

bisque

ash glaze

damper

 

burnishing

celadon

boric acid

 

kaolin

blister

calcine

 

leatherhard

crazing

bentonite

 

lime blow/ or lime pop

dunting

frit

 

Orton cone

flint

mingei

 

sgraffito

kaki

 

silica

tenmoku

Sung

 

slake

iron oxide

Tz'u Chou

 

slip

majolica

Ming

 

slurry

oxidation

hakeme

 

slop

reduction

Zen

 

wax resist

rutile

Kenzan

 

wedging

salt or soda firing

Shigaraki

 

fireclay

shivering

Nabeshima

 

ballclay

whiting

kufic

 

grog

wood ash

majolica

 

china clay

flux

basalt

 

kaolin

Egyptian paste

jasper

 

terra sigillata

faience

Mingeisota

 

cone pack

feldspar

calcine

 

 

 

Artists and Styles Beginning Ceramics

 

Hanniwa pg. 244

Viola Frey 284

Leach, Bernard +

Voulkos pg. 90, 52,312,117

Michael Cardew

Lucy Lewis ˆ+ pg.264,206,252

Weiser + pg. 113

Ken Ferguson * +pg. 283

Maria Martinez ˆ pg. 11, 265

Juan Quezada

Hamada +pg50,51,59,126,208,209

Mimbres + pg. 245

Jun Kaneko *+pg. 144,cover,214,269,153,261,290

Shino + And see glaze

Jomon pg. 239

Oribe + and see glaze

 

  ˆ video

* on wall posters

+ slide lectures

pg. page in Peterson book

Reading Assignments in Peterson.

1. Do not read safety issues.

 2. Read Handbuilding Section and Design from idea to art in the first two weeks

3. Read Wheel Throwing within one week after the throwing demo. You do not need to read about throwing lids, but look at the pictures.

 4. Read Glazing by midterm

5. Read Historical overview by semester's end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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