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A world-wide survey of traditional ceramics evaluates specific types for their raw materials, creation techniques, decoration types, and uses, in a comprehensive volume that features such topics as firing, glazes and finishes, molding, and throwing and provides a glossary, tourist information, and a

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Sentance has written three other volumes: on basketry, wood, and world textiles. This new study is an astounding survey, perhaps the first in English of traditional world ceramics. It discusses a multitude of topics in the field of clay, such as materials, techniques of forming, methods of decoration and firing, and myriad uses of clay objects. This volume includes an introduction, an astonishing number of superb color and black-and-white illustrations (more than 800), and text organized into eight sections. Each section is subdivided into very brief chapters describing raw materials, forming techniques, prefired decoration, firing, glazes and their uses, alternative finishes, use and function, and finally, quality of life using ceramic objects. It concludes with acknowledgments and sources of illustrations, and a glossary, listing of museums and places where other works can be seen, brief bibliography, and index. Readers will find this work very informative and intriguing. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; professionals; two-year technical program students. A. C. Garzio emeritus, Kansas State University