Title & Author:

Edith Heath : philosophies / editors, Jennifer M. Volland and Chris Marino.

Publication:

[Berkeley, California] : Berkeley Design Books ; Vancouver, BC : Information Office, [2020]
©2020

Description:

319 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, map, plans, portraits ; 25 cm.

Series:

Berkeley design books series ; #8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword : The Brian and Edith Heath / Heath Ceramics Collection / Chris Marino and Waverly B. Lowell -- Preface : Finding meaning in the life and work of Edith Heath / Jennifer M. Volland -- Winding back time : Memories of Edith and Brian Heath / Jay Stewart -- Edith Heath : Historical timeline / Rosa Novak and Jennifer M. Volland -- Pacesetters, place settings, and designing for the homes of today / Julie M. Muñiz -- Good design for everyone / Mara Holt Skov -- Etiquette in motion : A comparative consideration of Edith Heath's ashtrays and mugs / Ezra Shales -- Learning by doing : The education of Edith Heath / Brian Trimble -- Use the Earth to save the Earth : Edith Heath's émigré-influenced ideology / Rosa Novak -- Edith Heath's Vancouver workshops / Allan Collier -- Creative commons : Edith Heath and the International Design Conference in Aspen / Jennifer M. Volland -- Crosscurrents in clay : Edith Heath and Leon Galleto's architectural tile / Rosa Novak -- From surface to structure : The evolution of Edith Heath's architectural tile / Emily Vigor -- Making a place for art : Collaboration between Edith Heath and Robert Royston / JC Miller -- California ceramics for a California museum / Drew Heath Johnson -- Grandchildren of granite : Edith Heath and the women of land art / Rosa Novak -- The world is written in clay / Jennifer M. Volland -- Epilogue : Unearthing the Heaths' legacy / Catherine Bailey and Robin Petravic -- Selected product and dinnerware glaze history / Julie M. Muñiz and Rosa Novak -- Contributors' biographies -- Index -- Image credits and captions.
Co-published by Environmental Design Archive at UC Berkeley.

Summary:

"The book brings together critical essays about ceramist Edith Heath's life and work, philosophy, and impact on design. Academic-style essays are paired with Heath ephemera from the Environmental Design Archive at UC Berkeley. The book also contains an illustrated historical timeline and product and glaze catalogue of Heath Ceramics."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781988860121 (hardcover)
1988860121 (hardcover)

Subject:

Heath, Edith, 1911-2005.
Heath Ceramics.
Pottery, American 20th century.
Art pottery, American 20th century.
Potters United States Biography.
Ceramic tableware United States.
Céramique américaine 20e siècle.
Céramique d'art américaine 20e siècle.
Céramistes États-Unis Biographies.
Vaisselle de céramique États-Unis.
Art pottery, American
Ceramic tableware
Potters
Pottery, American
United States

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies

Added entries:

Volland, Jennifer M., 1970- editor.
Marino, Chris, 1986- editor.
Heath, Edith, 1911-2005, artist.
Berkeley/design/books ; no. 8.

Philosophies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315439
Call No.: 315439
Copy: 1
Status: Available