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Rediscovering The Wheel, Brooke Hodge, Risd Xyz

RISD XYZ Fall/Winter 2013: Out of Bounds

What does architecture have to do with pottery? For Adam Silverman BArch 88, these two seemingly disparate creative practices are inextricably intertwined.

Brooke Hodge, director of exhibitions and publications at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, writes frequently about architecture and design for major publications. This text is excerpted from a longer essay in the new book Adam Silverman Ceramics, published this fall by Skira/Rizzoli.

Perspectives On Andean Prehistory And Protohistory: Papers From The Third Annual Northeast Conference On Andean Archaeology And Ethnohistory, Daniel H. Sandweiss, D. Peter Kvietok, Patricia Netherly, Michael A. Malpass, Dwight T. Wallace, Richard E. Daggett, John R. Topic, Tom D. Dillehay, Lawrence Kaplan, Elizabeth Bonnier, Coreen E. Chiswell, Stuart V. Arnold, Monica Barnes

Andean Past Special Publications

This volume represents eight of the eighteen papers presented at the Third Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on October 27 and 28, 1984. It also includes a paper presented at the Second NCAAE held at the American Museum of Natural History on November 19-20, 1983. The papers include: "Wandering Shellfish: New Insights from Southeastern Coastal Ecuador" by Patricia Netherly, "Late Prehistoric Terracing at Chijra in the Collca Valley, Peru: Preliminary Report I" by Michael A. Malpass, "The Topara Tradition: An Overview" by Dwight T. Wallace, "The Peruvian North Central Coast During …

Investigations Of The Andean Past: Papers From The First Annual Northeast Conference On Andean Archaeology And Ethnohistory, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Michael A. Malpass, Thomas C. Patterson, Joan M. Gero, Rebecca R. Stone, Richard E. Daggett, Allison C. Paulsen, Christine C. Brewster-Wray, Lynda E. Spickard, William H. Isbell, Cheryl Daggett, T. Mcgreevy, R. Shaughnessy, Joel Rabinowtiz, Paul Dillon

Andean Past Special Publications

The papers included in this volume represent fourteen of the twenty-three original papers presented at the First Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory held at Cornell University on November 13th and 14th, 1982. The papers are: "The Preceramic Occupations of the Casma Valley, Peru" by Michael A. Malpass, "The Historical Development of a Coastal Andean Social Formation in Central Peru, 6000 to 500 B.C." by Thomas C. Patterson, "Stone Tools in Ceramic Contexts: Exploring the Unstructured" by Joan M. Gero, "Possible Uses, Roles, and Meanings of Chavin-style Painted Textiles of South Coast Peru" by Rebecca R. Stone, "Megalithic …

Artistic Tiles, American Encaustic Tiling Co.

Artistic Tiles from the American Encaustic Tiling Company

A manufacturer's catalog consisting of 89 unnumbered leaves of photographs and illustrations of embossed art tiles, some displayed as surrounding a mantle and some displayed on their own. Details for the tiles are given including size of tiles and assigned numbers, presumably corresponding to their manufacturing number. Included is a drawing of "a modern bathroom," as well as "profiles, of a few of our base, cap, cove, bead, and door trim tiles."

Ceramic Mosaic Tile : Mounted On Paper, American Encaustic Tiling Co.

Artistic Tiles from the American Encaustic Tiling Company

A manufacturer's catalog consisting of seventy-one color plates which depict available patterns, sizing, colors, lettering and numbers for myriad styles of floor tile design.

Illustrated Catalogue Of Art Tiles Made By J. G. & J. F. Low (1887), J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm)

Low Art Tile Book Collection

Photographs and color illustrations of tiles. This 1887 catalogue is incomplete. Compared with a 1990 reproduction of an intact 1887 catalogue, VCU Libraries’ copy lacks the following: six of 51 plates of unglazed designs (1-4, 12, and 51), the front and back covers, a title page, a reference key, a price list, and at least three pages of advertisements. Of particular note, however, are four lithographed plates (7-10) labeled “Moorish Designs,” which are not present in other Low catalogues.

Plastic Sketches Of J.G. And J.F. Low, J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm)

Low Art Tile Book Collection

This is a special series of 47 unglazed tiles modeled by Arthur Osborne. It was published in 1882 as a small, inexpensive booklet and, later, in 1886 as a deluxe edition with a satin cover. The digitized version is of an incomplete deluxe edition of 27 of the plates. Arthur Osborne’s signature, the letter “A” inside a circle, is evident in the bottom right corner of each modeled tile.Photographs of reproduction tiles made after the original plastic sketches of Arthur Osborne. Includes: 1. Eureka -- 3. Monks going to Mass -- 7. An Elizabethan lady -- 8. A courtier of …

Illustrated Catalogue Of Art Tiles Made By J. G. & J. F. Low (1884), J. G. And J.F. Low

Low Art Tile Book Collection

Text includes: Chronology of Low's Tiles; Reference Key; Price List of Low's Art Tiles; Plates I-XXX, and Trade advertisements (36 p.). This catalog includes two photographic plates of fireplaces and 28 plates of unglazed designs, a historical chronology, a reference key for the plates depicted, a price list of Low’s art tiles, and 36 pages of advertisements. The VCU Libraries’ copy also is inscribed, "Compliments of J.G. & J.F. Low." This digitized copy is a combination of two copies held by VCU Libraries in order to create the most complete copy possible. Pages 2, 3 and 39-75 are from the …