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From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia. By John A. Burrison. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010. Pp. ix + 161 forward, preface, acknowledgements, notes, books on Southern Folk Pottery, Index of Potters. $29.95 paper.)
The art of shaping clay and hardening it with fire has been practiced for 30,000 years (the Dolni Vestonici figures from die Czech Republic are dated 25,00029,000). Libraries have shelves of books on ceramics found as part of archeological digs, the ceramics of the ancient Greeks and Romans, Chinese ceramics, delftware, Mesoamerican pre-Columbian ceramics and many others. From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia by John Burrison joins other notable books in the field of American pottery such as Charles Zug's Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina and Burrison 's earlier masterpiece Brothers in Mud: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery.
This slim volume was written as a sequel and necessary update to the living tradition introduced in Brothers in Mud and as a companion to the exhibition curated by die author at die Folk Pottery Museum of Nordieast Georgia. In his new work, Burrison leads readers through die historic development of die craft in die region, explores die changing landscape of folk pottery and introduces...