Description
This book is designed to introduce people to the artists and to their fine art pottery. Featuring 450 illustrations of artist portraits, historic village scenes, authentic signatures and hallmarks, pottery making and hundreds of pots, the amount profiles 500 artists during the last two centuries.
The first three chapters address three main questions: “Who’re the Hopi-Tewa people?” “How do we evaluate Hopi-Tewa pottery?” “How is Hopi-Tewa pottery made?”
The center of the book is stuffed with 500 biographies, arranged alphabetically for simple reference. The survey collected information in 25 fields, including the artist’s culture, language, village, clan, active years, kinds of artwork, lifespan, circle of relatives, education, teachers, students, awards, demonstrations, exhibitions, collections, techniques, materials, favorite designs, galleries, publications, and two decades of auction records. Many completed a personal commentary, “I enjoy creating artwork, because…”
Following the biographies are circle of relatives tree charts, hallmarks and signatures, in addition to special sections on pottery types and styles, 100 designs and symbols, the language of the potters in Hopi, Tewa, and English, and an extensive bibliography.