TOINI MUONA - ARABIA 1931-1970.

Author: Kumela, Marjut
Country: FINLAND
Code: 7192
Language: Finnish/Swedish w English captions
Year Published:
No. of pages: 14
Illustrations: 10 Color Illustrations. 18 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 12”X 7”
Weight: 0.00

Price: 25.00

Toini Muona’s brilliance as a ceramicist was recognized right from her first exhibition in 1932. Her success was compounded by gold medals awarded at the Milan Triennale in 1933 and in Brussels (1935) and Paris (1937) World Fairs. This catalog shows an overview of her work up through the late 1960’s. Mostly simple beautiful forms in porcelain, some with oxblood reduction glaze.

WADA, MARIKO BORDERLAND/ GRÆNSELAND. At the Museum of International Ceramic Art - Denmark 2011

Author: Wada, Mariko
Country: Denmark
Code: 6548
Language: English/Japanese and Some Danish
Year Published: 2011
No. of pages: 64
Illustrations: 36 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10”x 8”
Weight: 1.00

Price: 49.50

Mariko Wada works slowly, carefully and in close dialogue with the material. The key focus of her work is the interaction between visual and tactile qualities. With a variety of hand-modelling techniques she explores the artistic means of expression in a ceramic context. This catalogue was specificaly made for her exhibition “Borderland” at the Museum of International Ceramic Art in Denmark. The exhibition creates a “place”, marked by small ceramic objects spread across the rooms and encapsulating the larger, more organic ceramic sculptures.

Wildenhain, Frans 1950 - 75 CREATIVE AND COMMERCIAL AMERICAN CERAMICS AT MID-CENTURY.

Author: Austin, Bruce A.
Country: New York
Code: 7207
Language: English
Year Published: 2012
No. of pages: 245
Illustrations: 150 Color Illustrations. 25 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10”x 9”
Weight: 4.00

Price: 29.50

Steeped in modernist ceramic aesthetics, Frans Wildenhain studied under Gerhard Marcks and Max Krehan at the Bauhaus pottery workshop in Dornburg, Germany. There, Wildenhain met another potter, Marguerite Friedlaender, his future wife. Following World War II, Wildenhain emigrated to the U.S. Earning prizes for his art at the 1939 International Exposition in Paris and the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, Wildenhain also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958, became a Fellow of the American Crafts Council and his work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Everson Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.This book features archival images as well as more than 150 rich, color photographs of the ceramics exhibited in 2012 at the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. Six chapters offer contributions to scholarship on the artist, mid-century studio pottery and modern design, monetizing and commercial acceptance of mid-century handcrafted art at an innovative artists' cooperative, university education at the School for American Craftsmen, and an interview with collector Robert Johnson who donated his Wildenhain collection to RIT. The book is an essential document of the exhibition and an excellent reference for those interested in ceramics, crafts, mid-century design and art entrepreneurship.

WILDENHAIN, MARGUERITE - BAUHAUS TO POND FARM.

Author: Cloutier, Dane Steven
Country: California
Code: 7191
Language: English
Year Published: 2007
No. of pages: 48
Illustrations: 32 Color Illustrations. 1 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9”sq
Weight: 1.00

Price: 49.50

Catalog of a comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work, with biographical notes from the exhibition’s curator. Marguerite Wildenhain was a master potter of mostly functional pieces made in stoneware with earthy reduction glazes. Selected Works from the Forrest L. Merril Collection.