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Fired by Ideals : Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and Crafts Movement by Lynn Downey, Suzanne Baizerman and John Toki (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPomegranate Communications, Incorporated
ISBN-100764913999
ISBN-139780764913990
eBay Product ID (ePID)1703947
Product Key Features
Book TitleFired by Ideals : Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Number of Pages136 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Decorative Arts
Publication Year2003
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Art
AuthorLynn Downey, Suzanne Baizerman, John Toki
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight24.8 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-042170
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal738.3/09794/62
SynopsisThe Arts and Crafts Movement exerted a profound influence on early-twentieth-century America, not only in the applied and decorative arts but also in the area of social reform. Standing at this intersection of art and reform were American art potteries that taught ceramics skills to working-class women as a means of securing income, restoring health, and/or uplifting the spirit. Like its better known and more successful predecessors -- the Marblehead Pottery in Massachusetts, the Newcomb Pottery in New Orleans, and the Paul Revere Pottery in Boston (home of the "Saturday Evening Girls") -- the Arequipa Pottery in Fairfax, California, had fascinating origins, and it produced distinctive wares that today are prized by collectors.Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts & Crafts Movement tells the story of the Arequipa Sanatorium and Pottery, whose roots lie in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The dust and smoke from the disaster prompted an outbreak of tuberculosis, which afflicted "working girls" in particular. In 1911, a progressive physician, Dr. Philip King Brown, founded a treatment center in rural Marin County,
LC Classification NumberNK4210.A685B35 2000
