| 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form (A Lark Ceramics Book) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Lark Books
Publisher: Lark Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 185319
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 408
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 7.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 1579905471
Dewey Decimal Number: 731.82
UPC: 661741005473
EAN: 9781579905477
Publication Date: September 1, 2004
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 Love this series! March 5, 2008
I love this series from Lark! It provides me with lots of inspiration and it is a wonderful tool to learn new artists and their work. I have almost the whole series!
Fantastic! October 18, 2007
I've been wanting to get into ceramics for a while and this book was just the thing to get my creative juices flowing. It has many (500 actually) beautiful pieces to admire, with such a wide selection of styles. I love that it has a both beautiful and grotesque figures revealing so many artistic view points. It's definitely not a "how to" book, with just enough info to get a basic idea of how each piece was created but the beautiful photographs and wide variety of sculptures makes it well worth purchasing.
 500 figures in clay August 28, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
without being able to review the illustrations in the book, I was unable to make good use of the models for my beginning sculpting projects. The cover picture seemed somewhat simple, but the many complex figures contained in the book were too difficult to be models for my limited ability.
Inspiration May 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am thrilled to own this book. I review it regularly for inspiration and ideas for glazes and forms.
 500 figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form (A Lark Ceramics Book) February 20, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
My low score for this book is primarily, but not exclusively, a low score for the judging. I find it difficult to believe that almost no work in the classical tradition was submitted. The work in these pages contained almost no work of a traditional figurative nature. Both in galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as at art shows/faires, there is plenty of traditional figurative work being done now in clay and bronze. I can only conclude that the judges hold a strong bias for non-traditional work.
There is also an alarming gap between what I will term "high end art" and mediocre. It's pretty obvious who the former are (e.g., Violet Frey, Beth Cavener Stichter); there are all too many in the latter category.
It may be that your "call" for art went out to a limited audience (to university art departments and art schools, perhaps?) and failed to capture the attention of more professional artists.
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