Modern Hopi Pottery [SOLD]

Modern Hopi Pottery

Kathryn A. Sikorski

Utah State University

Softcover, first edition, 1968, 92 pages, well illustrated

From the Introduction

This book presents a detailed exploration of a specific group of Hopi pottery which was selected for museum exhibit and sale in 1959 and presents this special collection as a temporary culmination in an ongoing evolution of pottery.  Only a portion of this evolution is described, a hundred-year sequence, but this is enough to show Hopi pottery as an ever-changing reflection of historic events and individual genius. In this fluid continuum, the Hopi potters borrow and transform their borrowings, developing certain stylistic frameworks which merge separate artistic traditions and give the individual craftswoman great scope for creativity.  

Hopi pottery is impressive for its great variety, and the multiplicity of its design elements, forms, and layouts, and the dynamism of both its patterns and historic development.