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Little Book of Wooden Bowls contains content from New Masters of Woodturning, first published in 2008 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Woodturning in the 21st Century
During the 1960s and 1970s, turned wooden bowls first came to be considered as objects of contemplation rather than simply of function. An art-like market gradually developed among collectors who considered such bowls too beautiful to use. Turners of vision started to ignore tradition, and to make pieces that broke many of the old “rules” of the craft. It was a quiet revolution, but a strangely disconnected one, because many participants had no idea what the others were doing. If anyone read about woodturning, it would have been in books emphasizing the trade values of techniques, not of innovative shapes or aesthetics.
In 1976, the American writer Dona Z. Meilach first documented the work for what it was—the beginning of a new art movement. In her book, Creating Small Wood Objects as Functional Sculpture, Meilach assembled much previously scattered history and put it into a larger context. She was probably the first person to describe turning as “sculptural” and to refer to turners as “artists.” Meilach also introduced people who would shape the new field such as Melvin Lindquist, Bob Stocksdale, and Stephen Hogbin. Meilach’s work alerted many artists to the fact that there were others like them, and also inspired many newcomers to join the movement.
During the 1970s and into the 1980s, the then-new Fine Woodworking magazine published a series of articles that reached an enormous audience around the world and changed the future of turning forever. The series
