Fired by ideals : Arequipa pottery and the arts and crafts movement / Suzanne Baizerman, Lynn Downey, John Toki.
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TextPublication details: San Francisco, CA : Pomergranate, c2000.Description: v, 129 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cmISBN: - 0764913999 (pbk.)
- 738.3 BAI
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The 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,
November 2000 exhibition to be held at the Oakland Museum of California.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-126) and index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Suzanne Baizerman is the Imogene Gieling Curator of Crafts & Decorative Arts at the Oakland Museum of California; she has authored & coauthored numerous publications on folk art & textiles.(Bowker Author Biography)