Wayne Higby - EarthCloud

Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt. New. 2007. HARDCOVER. 3897902761 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- HARDCOVER. Text in English and German. 200 pages; 221 color illustrations and 8 black and white illustrations. Description: "Wayne Higby installed EarthCloud in the richly endowed Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University in western New York state. It took four years to create EarthCloud, which is the largest installation in porcelain worldwide. The work embodies the idea of an ethereal fusion of earth, sky and architecture that is to be sensuously appreciated. The work stands 30 feet high, is 56 feet wide and incorporates over 6,000 individual tiles. Higby formed all those elements, using 18 tons of porcelain paste to do so and each one is site-specific. All porcelain elements boast a celadon glaze and were muffle-fired at 1300° C. The project took more than 5 years to complete, and its story is told here and accompanied by full color photographs. Wayne Higby is one of the most important and influential contemporary artists working in ceramics. Especially acclaimed for his interpretations of landscape, he has been a professor at Alfred University since 1973. Higby has worked geography, geology and the atmospheric light qualities of his immediate environment into EarthCloud. 'Earth, of course, is the drama of material, weight, gravity - the tactile, the sensual matrix of human life. We are of the earth and are bound by our bodies as products of nature revealed in the phenomena of the physical universe. Yet, we are also of the transcendent - the purely imagined possibility of mind, of spirit. We are EarthCloud.' (Wayne Higby, 2007) " -- with a bonus offer-- .