Robert Turner Shaping Silence - A Life in Clay

This monograph, on one of America's most significant ceramic artists,resents a complete account of Turner's rise during the art pottery movementf the 1960s, through to his celebrated, radical sculptural work of today.

As an art critic at the Detroit Free Press for twenty-one years, Marsha Miro covered the fine arts, crafts, and architecture. She has written books on nationally known fiber artist Gerhardt Knodel and the architecture at Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and coauthored a monograph on Detroit painter/sculptor Gordon Newton. Currently an architectural historian at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Miro wrote two regional-Emmy-winning documentary films about new architecture in the landmark community. She is also a correspondent for Glass Magazine and has written for American Ceramics, American Craft, Art in American, Art News, and Casabella Ceramicist Tony Hepburn is presently the Head of Ceramics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Previously, he taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Hepburn has been a regular contributor to American Ceramics, Ceramics: Art and Perception, New Art Examiner, American Craft, and Ceramic Review. From 1967 to 1971, he wrote the influential "Letter from London" column for Craft Horizons. His work has been seen in over a hundred solo exhibitions worldwide, and in 1970 he was awarded the Gold Medal at the International Biennale of Ceramics, in Faenza, Italy