A museum exhibition catalog for a 1990 show at the Seattle Art Museum, scanned and hosted digitally by Notkin's friend Garth Clark. (I think the lightbulb-teapot is very clever.

however, Garth's "3DIssue" web viewer was not to my liking, so i bothered to download the full-res assets, clean them up a little, and create an OCR'd (text-searchable) PDF.In the early 1980s, ceramist Richard Notkin, captivated by the Chinese pottery of the Yixing kilns, transformed images he had been sculpting forover a decade. In response to the rigorous formalism and subdued coloration of Yixing ceramics, particularly the teapots valued by Ming and Qing dynasty literati, Notkin reduced his palette, concentrated on intricate permutations of functional teapot designs, and found a voice particularly suited to his exacting craftsmanship, cerebrality, and reflective, populist politics.