THE POTTER'S EYE: ART AND TRADITION IN NORTH CAROLINA POTTERY

摘要

The Potter's Eye is, by any standards, a sumptuous book. Compiled as the catalogue to an exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the book stands alone as a substantial document of 274 pages, hundreds of high quality colour plates and text that chronicles the history and development of North Carolina folk pottery. The exhibition and therefore the book also features six contemporary North Carolina potters who have embraced the southern tradition of pottery making in their own work. The writers, Mark Hewitt and Nancy Sweezy, both have impeccable credentials for a project of this kind. Hewitt, British-born and an apprentice of Michael Cardew, came to North Carolina in 1983 and chose to site his pottery near Pittsboro. Of North Carolina he says 1 felt exhilarated to be working in a part of the world where potters were still making pots from scratch, gathering materials locally and firing in old wood-burning kilns, in much the same way that Michael had at Wenford'.