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Author: Emmanuel Cooper
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 1136931

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 488
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.7

ISBN: 0300099290
Dewey Decimal Number: 700
EAN: 9780300099294

Publication Date: August 1, 2003
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A biography of one of the most influential potters of the 20th century, an artist who lived in turmoil while creating pots of serenity and beauty. Widely recognized as the father of studio pottery, Bernard Leach (1887-1979) played a pioneering role in creating an identity for artist potters in Britain and around the world. Born in the East (Hong Kong) and educated in the West (England), throughout his life Leach perceived himself as a courier between the disparate cultures. His exquisite pots reflect the inspiration he drew from East and West as well as his response to the basic tenets of modernism - truth to materials, the importance of function to form, and simplicity of decoration. This biography provides a detailed account of Leach's life and its relation to his art. Emmanuel Cooper, himself a potter, draws on a wealth of documents and the recollections of the artist's family, friends and students to tell Leach's story. Cooper explores Leach's working methods, the themes of his pottery, his writings and philosophy, his recognition in Japan and Britain, and his continuing legacy, bringing into focus a complex man who captured in his work as a potter the "still centre" that always eluded him in his tumultuous personal life.

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Bernard Leach: Life and Work August 2, 2005
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Whilst not being criticla of by Cooper's book considerable caution needs to be taken with a statement such as Bernard Leach being the father of studio pottery as many predated him, with just a few being

Bernard Palissy 1509-1590
Ernest Chaplet 1835-1909
Auguste Delaherche 1857-1940
Martin Brothers 1873-1923
Fishley family from early 1800s
William Moorcroft 1873-1945
William and Edward Taylor, at in Pottery in late 1890s
Charles Vyse 1882 - 1971

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