What motivates and inspires the finest porcelain artists working today? Forty internationally celebrated masters reveal their secrets, explaining just how they work with this incredibly demanding ceramic material, prized for its pristine beauty. Pure white and wonderfully delicate, porcelain is what clay potters usually graduate to only after years of honing their skills. This diverse collection showcases the results of that dedication, and the versatility is simply breathtaking: Claire Curneen presents highly emotive, tactile figurative forms. Edmund de Waal’s elegant celadon site-specific vessel installations are renowned for their meditative presence. Harlan House’s finely carved vessels take inspiration from nature's organic forms, while Bodil Manz's eggshell porcelain cylinders are so translucent that you can sometimes discern light and shadow passing through the walls of his pots.

Introduction

THE MASTERS

 Piet Stockmans

 Ruth Duckworth

 Suk-Young Kang

 Ann Linnemann

 Ilona Romule

 Janet DeBoos

 Rebecca Harvey

 Sergei Isupov

 Yikyung Kim

 Les Lawrence

 Bodil Manz

 Andrew Martin

 Paul Mathieu

 Christopher P.Staley

 Richard Shaw

 Susan Beiner

 Curtis Benzle

 Philip Cornelius

 Claire Curneen

 Paul A. Dresang

 Harlan House

 Leah Leitson

 Keisuke Mizuno

 Sunkoo Yuh

 Edmund De Waal

 Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

 Kim Soo-Jeong

 Matthew Metz

 Aysha Peltz

 Linda Sikora

 Kurt Weiser

 Edward S. Eberle

 Silvie Granatelli

 Nicholas Homoky

 Taizo Kuroda

 Prue Venables

 Arne Ase

 Sandra Black

 Sam Chung

 Diane Kenney

About the Curator

Acknowledgments,

About the Artists,

Index of Contributing Artists