Antoinette Badenhorst on sun 17 jan 10
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Lili wrote:=3D20
"I love Ron/John's book. =3DC2=3DA0That is not it. =3DC2=3DA0I thought and =
think Rh=3D
odes's books fabulous......................Both Leach and Cardew are kinda =
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cult figures by now...BUT there are excellent wonderful useful, indispensab=
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le books out there, by Brits and others, books that should be owned read, l=
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earned from.=3DC2=3DA0=3DC2=3DA0=3D20
Michael Bailey,=3D20
Emmanuel Cooper, Tony Birks, Michael Casson--wonderful, useful books.=3D20
The whole "Ceramics Skillbooks" series...excellent books. =3DC2=3DA0Harry F=
rase=3D
r has been mentionned. =3DC2=3DA0Elsbeth S. Woody=3DC2=3DA0=3DC2=3DA0=3DC2=
=3DA0Not to menti=3D
on Robin Hopper, and Robert Fournier...There are plenty more--=3D20
Daniel de Montmollin Several of these books are available in translation...=
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into French, Spanish, German (Elsbeteh may have written =3DC2=3DA0hers in G=
erma=3D
n first.)"=3D20
Lili,=3D20
After I read your list I stood up to see how many of these authors are on m=
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y bookshelve. It is quite an impressive list you have there! I have all the=
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ones Jon recommends. Question is how much we really read and use those boo=
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ks.=3D20
There was a time that I kept all my books at my bedside and made notes in t=
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hem, carried them to my studio and litterally worked from them. These days =
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I=3DC2=3DA0mostly grap them, for references.=3D20
There is something very important about reading books internationally; it o=
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pes up=3DC2=3DA0ones mind and one learns that there are many ways to skin a=
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. I am in the fortunate position that I leared mostly from English books, i=
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n South Africa and then had the opportunity to resume with my learning expe=
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rience in American books after we moved here.=3D20
Coming from an Afrikaans background, I remember how difficult it was for me=
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those years=3DC2=3DA0to read and understand general English, what to say t=
echn=3D
ical English:=3D20
One incident that stands out clear in my mind, was when I first read about =
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salt in the kiln. At the time I knew nothing about kilns. My husband bought=
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me an old top loader (R400=3DC2=3DA0=3D3D about $5 today!) =3DC2=3DA0with =
which I le=3D
arned the hard way about kiln dirt. We had to handshape elements for this t=
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hing, since we were miles away from any civilization and at the time I stil=
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l had to find out where to find a pottery store. ( in SA 5 hours drive is a=
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very long trip to take!) =3DC2=3DA0 At first I thought I must have misunde=
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od the term "salt", but decided to test it anyway. O f cause I did nothing =
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correctly and at the time I was just too happy that something melted in my =
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kiln, so the salt use was in anyway just a sprinkle in the wind. Later on I=
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used salt often in my pit fires.................=3D20
Fact is I ended up having the whole world teaching me through books from ac=
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ross the world. It is good to have one teacher, but many is much better....=
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............=3D20
Antoinette Badenhorst=3D20
Lincolnshire, Illinois=3D20
Lili Krakowski=3D20
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