Product Overview
In a celebration of the functional and the handmade, potter Ronald Larsen has gathered an engaging collection of essays, stories, poems, and observations by a wide range of potters, writers, philosophers, and other artisans, exploring the history, aesthetics, and philosophy behind making pots--or anything else--by hand.
Includes, among others, the writings of:
- Marguerite Wildenhain--A Potter's Philosophy
- Octavio Paz--Use and Contemplation
- Lafcadio Hearn--The Tale of the Porcelain-God
- John Updike--From the Journal of a Leper
- Jamake Highwater--Illusions of Originality
- Wallace Stevens--Anecdote of the Jar
- Bernard Leach--The Potter's Challenge
