- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Abbeville Press (Oct 13 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0896599272
- ISBN-13: 978-0896599277
- Product Dimensions: 31.5 x 26.6 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.9 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #608,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
From Publishers Weekly
The self-styled "Biloxi Mud Dauber," Mississippi art potter Ohr (1857-1918) produced thousands of ceramic pieces that were out of step with their time. Detractors have called them bizarre, crude, even ugly, but his supporters saw Ohr as an eccentric genius, a romantic who staked unexplored aesthetic territory with unprecedented shapes and idiosyncratic glazes, and created a polychromatic spectrum of works. A picaresque rebel with flashing eyes and a long white beard, Ohr deemed these pots his "mud babies." Scores of them are on display in this monograph illustrated with 140 color and 100 black-and-white photos. Clark wrote American Ceramics , Ellison is a founder of the American Ceramic Arts Society and Hecht is an editor of Arts and Crafts Quarterly.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
A brilliantly written, lavishly produced volume on an important yet little- known clay artist.
Misunderstood and unappreciated during his lifetime (1857-1918), George Ohr, America's archetypal artist-potter, pushed the form of the vessel beyond mere function to the point of abstraction. Today the genius of this radical and sophisticated artist has finally been recognized. His thin-walled, paper-light pots, labeled grotesque in his day, are now seen as a tour de force of delicacy and restraint and a stunning exploration of the plasticity of clay. Ruffling, twisting, tearing, and collapsing his fragile pots, Ohr anticipated much of what we take for granted in contemporary art and ceramics.
Stunningly illustrated with 140 color images of his most important pieces, this landmark volume, winner of the George Wittenborn Award for outstanding art books from the Art Libraries Society of North America, presents the first major study of Ohr. Beautifully woven together, the text and images confirm a judgment the Mad Potter once passed on himself: "Unequaled! Unrivaled! Undisputed!" he wrote on a sign outside his shop, "Greatest Art Potter on Earth!"
Other Details: 240 illustrations,140 in full color. 10 x 12" trim size. First published in 1989.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
the most amazing book of pottery I have ever seen!,
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This review is from: The Mad Potter of Biloxi: The Art and Life of George E. Ohr (Hardcover)
this man was a a head of his time. i have never seen anythig that has come out of the 1800's that looked any thing like this.The photography is great and the biography is good , but the pottery is the best i have ever seen he had great form and great glaze you could not ask any more from a potter
4.0 out of 5 stars
The most unique and most copied potter in the world.,
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This review is from: The Mad Potter of Biloxi: The Art and Life of George E. Ohr (Hardcover)
This book has marvelous images of just some of the fine works that George Ohr created. The summaries of his life are correct to some extent but it failed to provide any deatails of his offspring or how they may have carried on the innate artist abilities, this is why I only give it four stars.
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the most amazing book of pottery I have ever seen!,
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This review is from: The Mad Potter of Biloxi: The Art and Life of George E. Ohr (Hardcover)
this man was a a head of his time. i have never seen anythig that has come out of the 1800's that looked any thing like this.The photography is great and the biography is good , but the pottery is the best i have ever seen he had great form and great glaze you could not ask any more from a potter
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George Ohr,
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This review is from: The Mad Potter of Biloxi: The Art and Life of George E. Ohr (Hardcover)
The book shows an excellent selection of George Ohr's unusual work. It tells a good bit about his life as well. Any potter wanting a good glimpse at Ohr's work before going to the museum in Biloxi should start here! He is definitely a "one of a kind" potter!
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The Mad Potter,
By Melvin Biri - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Mad Potter of Biloxi: The Art and Life of George E. Ohr (Hardcover)
An excellant book. This was very complete and well written. George Ohr was an intersting guy and I liked the detail attributed to his work. It did leave some questions for me about the origianlity/counterfeiting aspect. How do you tell? Who would know?
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