Ceramics Philip Rawson. Foreword by Wayne Higby "A moving book based on the knowledge of facts together with their overtones and resonances. . . . Its method is valid for an appreciation of art in all its branches."--Stella Kramrisch "With the unassuming title of Ceramics , Rawson has presented a very clear, orderly and thought-provoking guide for discussion. He provides words for those nebulous, or nonexistent, thoughts that students avoid talking about in critiques, and our professional associates talk all around, using whatever art language is being worn out at the time--'Is your work postmodernist yet?' Now we have no excuse to complain that there is no voca ..

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Philip Rawson, a distinguished academic and author, practiced as a sculptor all of his life. Sculpture , his final book, completes the trilogy begun with his classic works, Drawing and Ceramics . As in those earlier volumes, Rawson provides a clear, factual description of the underlying principles and structural techniques of the art. Although Rawson discusses sculptures from many places and periods--including Africa, Asia, Greece, Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and twentieth-century Europe and America--Sculpture is not a history as such. Rather, it is an original analysis of sculpture as a fundamental and integral form of human language capable of conveying ..