American potters: Beatrice Wood, Ceramic art, Heber C. Kimball, Waylande Gregory, Maria Martinez, Mary Tuthill Lindheim, Eva Zeisel, Frederick Hurten Rhead, Regis Brodie, Kenneth Price, Rose Cabat, Viktor Schreckengost, Otto and Vivika Heino

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Chapters: Beatrice Wood, Ceramic art, Heber C. Kimball, Waylande Gregory, Maria Martinez, Mary Tuthill Lindheim, Eva Zeisel, Frederick Hurten Rhead, Regis Brodie, Kenneth Price, Rose Cabat, Viktor Schreckengost, Otto and Vivika Heino, Thomas Bezanson, Peter Voulkos, Daniel Rhodes, George E. Ohr, Robert Arneson, Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, Marguerite Wildenhain, Toshiko Takaezu, Mary Louise McLaughlin, Bennett Bean, Jerry Dolyn Brown, Walter Scott Lenox, Mary Chase Perry Stratton, Paul Soldner, Julia Galloway, Fannie Nampeyo, Tammie Allen, Jabez Vodrey, Anthony Durand, North Carolina Highway 705, Edwin Bennett, Dextra Quotskuyva, Angelo Garzio, Margaret Tafoya, Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, Blue Corn, Overbeck Sisters, Julian Martinez, Hugh C. Robertson, Edith Heath, Rose Gonzales, Marie Z. Chino, Hideaki Miyamura, Anita Louise Suazo, Juanita Suazo Dubray, Warren MacKenzie, Adrian Saxe, Rudolf Staffel, Helen Naha, Elva Nampeyo, Aguilar Family, Dave the Slave, Margaret and Luther Gutierrez, Taxile Doat, Bruce Winn, Arthur and Hilda Coriz, Sorcha Boru, Peter Anderson, Nancy Sweezy, Rudy Autio, Jono Pandolfi, Pauline Jacobus, Sally Fletcher-Murchison, Tyra Naha, Lucy M. Lewis, Robert C. Turner, Herman Carl Mueller, Robert A. Crook, Michael Kanteena, Leza McVey, Juliana Royster Busbee, Linda and Merton Sisneros, M. C. Richards, Vera Chino, Richard Notkin, Nell Cole Graves, Bonnie Seeman, Joseph Lonewolf, Homer Laughlin, Bill Wedekind. Excerpt: In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as artifacts in archaeology. They may be made by one individual or in a factory where a group of people design, make and decorate the ware. Decorative ceramics are sometimes called "art pottery". The word "ceramics" comes from the Greek keramikos (¿e¿aµ¿¿¿¿), meaning "pottery", which in turn comes from keramos (¿e¿aµ¿¿), meaning "potter's clay." Most traditional ceramic products were made from clay (or clay mixed with other materials), shaped and subjected to heat, and tableware and decorative ceramics are generally still made this way. In modern ceramic engineering usage, ceramics is the art and science of making objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials by the action of heat. It excludes glass and mosaic made from glass tesserae. There is a long history of ceramic art in almost all developed cultures, and often ceramic objects are all the artistic evidence left from vanished cultures, like that of the Nok in Africa over 2,000 years ago. Cultures especially noted for fine ceramics include the Chinese, Cretan, Greek, Persian, Mayan, Japanese, and Korean cultures, as well as the modern Western cultures. Elements of ceramic art, upon which different degrees of emphasis have been placed at different times, are the shape of the object, its decoration by painting, carving and other methods, and the glazing found on most ceramics. Vessel from Mesopotamia, late Ubaid period (4,500-4,000 BCE)Early pots were made by the "coiling" method, working the clay into a long string which was wound round to form a shape and then modelled to form smooth walls. The potter's wheel was probably invented in Mesopotamia by the 4th millennium BC, but spread across nearly all Eurasia and much of Africa,