Dark Light is the first book on the ceramics of the great Navajo ceramist Christine Nofchissey McHorse and features her award-winning sculptural black series begun in 1998. Authors Clark and Del Vecchio, the two foremost experts on international contemporary ceramics, give respect to the artist's Native roots while also exploring her art in a mainstream context, a breakthrough in evaluating Indian pottery today. Dark Light refers to the mica-rich clay McHorse uses in her vessels. When fired, the mica glows and shimmers ...
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Dark Light is the first book on the ceramics of the great Navajo ceramist Christine Nofchissey McHorse and features her award-winning sculptural black series begun in 1998. Authors Clark and Del Vecchio, the two foremost experts on international contemporary ceramics, give respect to the artist's Native roots while also exploring her art in a mainstream context, a breakthrough in evaluating Indian pottery today. Dark Light refers to the mica-rich clay McHorse uses in her vessels. When fired, the mica glows and shimmers against the black of the reduction-fired surfaces, advancing and receding, giving McHorse's elegant, matt-black biomorphic shapes a retinal vibrance and a sensual life.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book Hardbound, no dust jacket. Previous owner's name in ink on the front free end page. Minor soiling to boards, otherwise very good.
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As New. 1934491381. Hardcover first edition in glossy pictoraial boards. SIGNED by renowned Navajo ceramicist / sculptor Christine Nofchissey McHorse, together with Garth Clark, Mark Del Vecchio of the Ceramic Arts Foundation as well as Addison Doty who photography the work for this exquisite monograph.; 4to 11"-13" tall; 110 pages.
