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Ceramics: Home

This libguide has been created to assist with research on ceramics, clay, and various glazes.

Featured Databases

Oxford Art Online
Access point for Grove Art Online and other reference sources. Find every period of art history, art forms in every country, art in civilizations and cultures, styles and movements, art techniques, art theories, and artist biographies.
Biography Reference Bank
Biographies of world artists, authors, composers, songwriters, musicians, film directors and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Begin your research with reliable overviews from authoritative subject encyclopedias. Dependable information, citable sources.
Grove Art Online
Contains Grove Art Online, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford Companion to Western Art.

Internet

PotWeb: Ceramics Online @ The Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK.

History

The history of American ceramics, 1607 to the present : from pipkins and bean pots to contemporary forms by Elaine Levin
Call Number: NK 4005 .L48 1988
Ten thousand years of pottery by Emmanuel Cooper
Call Number: NK 3780 .C663 2000
Classic stoneware of Japan : Shino and Oribe (Combined edition) by Ryoji Kuroda; Takeshi Murayama
Call Number: NK 4340 .S5 K8713 2002
21st century ceramics in the United States and Canada by Bill Hunt; American Ceramic Society
Call Number: NK 4003 .T84 2003

Postmodern ceramics by Mark Del Vecchio
Call Number: NK 3930 .D45 2001

Periodicals

Art in America

Ceramics Monthly

Flash Art

Print copies EFC Library, Main Campus, Periodicals Section

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