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Arts and Crafts of Newcomb Pottery. Folio, 9 3/4" x 12 1/4", 339pp., profusely illustrated with full color plates. Fine, no markings or wear in fine dust jacket.
Reviews"This book shows how the Newcomb project grew and flourished, leaving a legacy of the most extraordinary art pottery ever produced in the U.S." ~Art of the Times "...filled with wonderful detail shots of the luscious glazes and the women's trademark stylized renderings of Southern flora..." ~ StyleCourt "...offers essays on Newcomb's unique industry and its aid to both business and culture in struggling, post Civil-War New Orleans." ~ Art & Auction, "...filled with wonderful detail shots of the luscious glazes and the women's trademark stylized renderings of Southern flora..." ~ StyleCourt "...offers essays on Newcomb's unique industry and its aid to both business and culture in struggling, post Civil-War New Orleans." ~ Art & Auction
Dewey Edition23
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Dewey Decimal738.309763
SynopsisAccompanying a major traveling exhibition, this sumptuous volume is the first book to show the entire range of Newcomb Pottery's creative output in the context of American artistic and social developments in the early years of the modern era. While art pottery crafted at the Newcomb Pottery is among the most admired and collected of all American decorative arts, the enterprise that was the pottery is recognized as an exceptionally advanced social experiment for its time. Elegantly designed and profusely illustrated, this book celebrates the full range of objects created at the renowned Newcomb Pottery, founded by H. Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans. From the 1890s to around 1940, this remarkable all-woman art school developed a recognizable style based in Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts aesthetics. All-new, brilliant photographs of 250 objects accompany newly researched essays by respected scholars of decorative arts, a timeline, and artist biographies and pottery decorators' marks.
LC Classification NumberNK4340.N47
Text byEidelberg, Martin, Main, Sally, Conradsen, David, Spinozzi, Adrienne, Tucker, Kevin W.