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Yary Livan. Livan is the sole living master of Cambodia’s traditional ceramics and kiln building techniques, having miraculously avoided a death in Pol Pot’s Killing Fields. He has produced paintings, sculpture and pottery over his long career. Saturday at 9 a.m. Ceramics Program of Harvard’s Office for the Arts, 219 Western Ave., Allston...
...family of 12 has made 2,400 bricks. They are paid $1.60 per thousand. The workers kneel down and pray in the field. Tomorrow they will start the same routine over again?mixing clay, molding bricks and drying, stacking and loading them onto packhorses to carry to the kiln. The product of their labor goes mostly to build merchants' houses in Peshawar or Hayatabad. The Shinwari family can only dream of the day when bricks made by their hands can be used to rebuild their own shattered country...
Koetsu was the first Japanese to sign one of his own tea bowls--the famous "Fuji" bowl, now designated a national treasure by the Japanese and hence unable to be shown in the U.S.--but he never ran his own kiln. Like Rikyu before him, Koetsu worked with a family of potters whose name came to stand for a whole class of rough, low-fired pottery: raku ware. Unlike Rikyu, though, Koetsu got his hands dirty, shaping the clay, carving it with knife and spatula...
...Koetsu was the first Japanese to sign one of his own tea bowls - the famous "Fuji" bowl, now designated a national treasure by the Japanese and hence unable to be shown in the U.S. - but he never ran his own kiln. Like Rikyu before him, Koetsu worked with a family of potters whose name came to stand for a whole class of rough, low-fired pottery: raku ware. Unlike Rikyu, though, Koetsu got his hands dirty, shaping the clay, carving it with knife and spatula...
...Franck is an American expatriate living in Paris whose work has been widely shown in Europe. She's a ceramist, or potter, depending on what you think of her very distinct style. Her bowls and vases are always porcelain and always small, due to the limitations of her kiln. They come in a few very specific shapes-round, rectangular, oval or flat. She takes a simple shape and varies it simply-some pieces are scalloped, some are painted to look like they are. For this show, she has made a few more innovative pieces, the most striking of which...