California Pottery: From Missions to Modernism

by Bill Stern

Book Overview

Pottery was for the patio, porcelain for the dinner table until the kilns of California began mass-producing and distributing imaginative, brightly colored tableware in the late 1920s. Today, the inventive forms and playful shapes of Calfironia pottery make it a much sought-after and highly prized collectible. Published to coincide with an exhitibiton at SF MOMA, California Pottery is the ultimate guide to the cultural forces and talented designers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811830683
• ISBN13: 9780811830683
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A Colorful look at California Pottery

This colorful and enjoyable book makes a strong case for the importance of California's commercial potteries in drawing on the state's unique cultural heritage to introduce dramatic new colors and styles to the United States. The book is easy to read and filled with interesting facts, with beautiful color photos on almost every page. I was fascinated by pictures of pottery from the 30's, side-by-side with the handmade folk pottery on which the designs werte based. This is a must for any serious pottery collector! Note that the book parallels an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The author, Bill Stern, was the curator for that exhbition.