Art: Ceramics
Online Materials
- Ceramic Collection and Archive, University of Whales Click on "Research and Student Projects" to learn about Jamaican Pottery.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art Click on "permanent Collections" for a tour of art from various countries and eras.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art The collection lets your browse various forms of art from all over the world.
- The Museums of the Potteries Site takes you on a tour visually and historically of English pottery
- Canadian Museum of Civilization After entering the site, try "Treasures" in the Explore by Subject index.
- Regia Anglopum This is the pottery page of a much larger and facinating site about Medieval Britain.
- Asian Arts Select "Galleries" to view an alphabetical listing of art around the world or search the Gallery by using the term pottery.
- Ethnographica.com This is Aftican art wrapped in a web site that's not to be missed.
- Native Tech Here you'll see what the Eastern Woodlands Indians acomplished without a potter's wheel and how they did it.
- Rufford Studio pottery movement, British 20th century
- Bridges for Peace
Print Materials
- Sample Book List
731.42 Nig Sculpturing Clay
738.1 Cha The Big Book of Ceramics
Sample Reference Book List
Ref 738.09 Pot Pottery in the Making: Ceramic Traditions
Ref 738. 3 Coo A History of World Pottery
. . .or go with more general art books and check for specifics in the index
Ref 738.3 Cha World Ceramics
Ref 709. 01 Bod Art in Africa - Browse the 700's thru 738's in both the regular and Reference collection for art books that contain information about ceramics.
- Special Collections
- Travel Guides 75 countries represented (See World Reference Island)
Cultures of the World 73 countries represented (See World Reference Island)
Culturegrams for lifestyles of people worldwide