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FIRED BY IDEALS: AREQUIPA POTTERY AND THE ARTS AND CRAFTS By Suzanne Baizerman
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FIRED BY IDEALS: AREQUIPA POTTERY AND THE ARTS AND CRAFTS By Suzanne Baizerman

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    ISBN-10
    0764913999
    Publication Name
    Pomegranate
    Type
    Paperback
    Item Height
    10.5 inches
    ISBN
    9780764913990

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    Publisher
    Pomegranate Communications, Incorporated
    ISBN-10
    0764913999
    ISBN-13
    9780764913990
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    1703947

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Fired by Ideals : Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and Crafts Movement
    Number of Pages
    136 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Year
    2003
    Topic
    Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Decorative Arts
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Design, Art
    Author
    Lynn Downey, Suzanne Baizerman, John Toki
    Format
    Trade Paperback

    Dimensions

    Item Weight
    24.8 Oz
    Item Length
    11 in
    Item Width
    8.5 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    00-042170
    Dewey Edition
    21
    Dewey Decimal
    738.3/09794/62
    Synopsis
    The Arts and Crafts Movement exerted a profound influence on early-twentieth-century America, not only in the applied and decorative arts but also in the area of social reform. Standing at this intersection of art and reform were American art potteries that taught ceramics skills to working-class women as a means of securing income, restoring health, and/or uplifting the spirit. Like its better known and more successful predecessors -- the Marblehead Pottery in Massachusetts, the Newcomb Pottery in New Orleans, and the Paul Revere Pottery in Boston (home of the "Saturday Evening Girls") -- the Arequipa Pottery in Fairfax, California, had fascinating origins, and it produced distinctive wares that today are prized by collectors.Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts & Crafts Movement tells the story of the Arequipa Sanatorium and Pottery, whose roots lie in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The dust and smoke from the disaster prompted an outbreak of tuberculosis, which afflicted "working girls" in particular. In 1911, a progressive physician, Dr. Philip King Brown, founded a treatment center in rural Marin County,
    LC Classification Number
    NK4210.A685B35 2000

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        Great history and photos of the Arequipa sanatorium, their pottery, philosophy of treatment of tuberculosis, as well as pottery of the same era.

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        This book was very informative about the company history, products, marks, and photos of great company pottery.

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