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Talking with the Turners - Conversations with Southern Folk Potters (Mixed media product)
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Talking with the Turners - Conversations with Southern Folk Potters (Mixed media product)
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A folk pottery pilgrimage that finds a southern art form at a
crossroads. Traveling the back roads of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, Charles R.
Mack spent the summer of 1981 talking with the potters who produced
the face jugs, mugs, and plates that had skyrocketed in popularity
in the late 1970s and collecting examples of their wares. He was,
in effect, taking the pulse of a southern folkway on the brink of
transition. With the benefit of a quarter century of hindsight,
Mack has now gathered these interviews into ""Talking with the
Turners"", a single volume that documents the world of southern
pottery as it shifted from the production of utilitarian wares to
the aesthetic realm of folk art. In their own words the turners,
most of whom are now deceased, explain what it means to be a
potter, to be part of a profession that passes from generation to
generation, to experiment with new designs while continuing to
produce traditional forms of ceramics. Arranged thematically, the
interviews emerge as an open dialogue among the participants - the
type of backroom shoptalk that collectors and scholars are rarely
privileged to share. In addition to the centerpiece interviews -
many of which are also featured on an accompanying audio CD - Mack
includes numerous color and black-and-white photographs of the
potters, their shops, and their wares. Mack's extensive commentary
sets these particular potters in the context of the larger American
ceramics tradition, explains pottery techniques, and summarizes
recent changes in pottery making. ""Talking with the Turners"" is
augmented by an introduction by Lynn Robertson, director of the
McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina, and a
foreword by William R. Ferris, the founding director of the Center
for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
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