The Potter's Art - Softcover
This authoritative and beautiful book is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of British pottery. Focusing on four types – the peasant, the industrial, the artist and the studio potter – the author traces the story from the rudimentary pots of the Middle Ages to the sophisticated work of modern studio potters, always emphasizing the changing social conditions that have spurred development.
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Garth Clark is a leading authority on modern and contemporary ceramics, and is the author of some 30 books and more than 100 essays, reviews and articles on the subject. He founded the Ceramic Arts Foundation in 1979, and directs two galleries, in New York and Los Angeles, specializing in ceramic art.
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Not merely a catalog of the overfamiliar blue-and-white Wedgewood that we instinctively think of as British ceramics, this is a lively chronicle with a readable text complemented by hundreds of colorful photographs. Noted gallery owner Clark (The Book of Cups, Abbeville, 1990) has arranged his history into four sections to create a sensible narrative. The short section on peasant pottery, ranging from the Neolithic to the 19th century, is overbalanced by an excellent discussion of the industrial potters and their transformation of the role pottery occupied in daily life. The somewhat artificial distinction between the sections on artist potters and studio potters doesn't impede an examination of the works of Leach, DeMorgan, Cardew, Rie, and dozens of other prominent and obscure potters. The reasoned text, opulent illustrations, and tight focus on pottery vessels combine to produce one of the finest general works on British ceramics. For academic and large public library art collections.
David McClelland, Temple Univ. Lib., Philadelphia
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
David McClelland, Temple Univ. Lib., Philadelphia
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherPhaidon Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0714843881
- ISBN 13 9780714843889
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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