Scorched Earth: 100 Years of Southern African Potteries

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November 01 2018 Scorched Earth: 100 Years of Southern African Potteries Scorched Earth: 100 Years of Southern African PotteriesWendyGersAuckland Park, SA: Jacanda Media, 2016. 416 pp., 300+ color ill., notes, biblio., index. $55.95, hardcover Author and Article Information Online Issn: 1937-2108 Print Issn: 0001-9933 © 2018 by the Regents of the University of California.2018Regents of the University of California African Arts (2018) 51 (4): 96. https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00439 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Scorched Earth: 100 Years of Southern African Potteries. African Arts 2018; 51 (4): 96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00439 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsAfrican Arts Search Advanced Search Scorched Earth is an account of potteries operating in southern Africa during the twentieth century. With this book, Wendy Gers offers a survey of thirty-two small-to-medium sized potteries that engaged in serial production of a variety of domestic and commercial wares. Each chapter is devoted to one pottery and includes a brief history, types of materials and techniques employed, and an account of the people involved in its history and operation. Gers is an independent curator and art historian who specializes in ceramics. She is also a former curator at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, a founding coordinator of an international ceramics research laboratory for the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts (ENSA) Limoges, France, and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Gers has curated several exhibitions, including the First Central China International Ceramics Biennale at the Henan Museum (December 2016-March 2017), and Terra-Nova, Taiwan Ceramics Biennale... You do not currently have access to this content.