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245 00 $aTalking with the turners :$bconversations with Southern folk potters /$cCharles R. Mack ; foreword by William R. Ferris ; introduction by Lynn Robertson.
260 $aColumbia, S.C. :$bUniversity of South Carolina Press in cooperation with McKissick Museum,$c℗♭2006.
300 $axxxiii, 233 pages, [16] pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm +$e1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)
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500 $a"Thematic excerpts transcribed from interviews taped in the field in 1981 and preserved in the folklife resource center of the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina with introductory and concluding essays, complementary photography, and a CD recording of the potters' voices."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.
505 0 $aCommentary on the turning tradition -- Biographical sketches of those interviewed -- The turners talk: excerpts from the 1981 interviews. On being a potter -- Family origins and family ties -- Growing up and being trained -- Recollections of changes and transitions -- Into the business -- The distaff side -- From clay pit to pot shop -- When they turned -- How they turned -- What they turned -- Innovations in technique and style -- Glazing -- The potter's kiln -- Kiln burning -- Marketing matters -- Turner tales -- What the future holds -- Epilogue: A generation later -- Appendix: Terms and techniques.
520 $aThis book is a folk pottery pilgrimage that finds a southern art form at a crossroads. Traveling the back roads of North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, Charles R. Mack spent the summer of 1981 talking with the potters who produced the face jugs, mugs, and plates that had skyrocketed in popularity in the late 1970s and collecting examples of their wares. He was, in effect, taking the pulse of a southern folkway on the brink of transition. With the benefit of a quarter century of hindsight, Mack has now gathered these interviews into Talking with the Turners, a single volume that documents the world of southern pottery as it shifted from the production of utilitarian wares to the aesthetic realm of folk art. In their own words the turners, most of whom are now deceased, explain what it means to be a potter, to be part of a profession that passes from generation to generation, to experiment with new designs while continuing to produce traditional forms of ceramics. Arranged thematically, the interviews emerge as an open dialogue among the participants -- the type of backroom shoptalk that collectors and scholars are rarely privileged to share. In addition to the centerpiece interviews -- many of which are also featured on an accompanying audio CD -- Mack includes numerous color and black-and-white photographs of the potters, their shops, and their wares. Mack's extensive commentary sets these particular potters in the context of the larger American ceramics tradition, explains pottery techniques, and summarizes recent changes in pottery making. - Publisher.
650 0 $aPottery, American$zSouthern States.
650 0 $aPotters$zSouthern States$vInterviews.
650 0 $aFolk artists$zSouthern States$vInterviews.
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650 7 $aPottery, American.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01073650
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700 1 $aMack, Charles R.,$d1940-
710 2 $aMcKissick Museum.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020427.html
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f6b7-aa
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