Ceramics Books and Magazines

Author: Martin Greenwood
Publisher: Richard Dennis Publications Dist
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 1811493

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 250
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 9.2 x 1.1

ISBN: 0903685248
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9780903685245

Publication Date: August 10, 2006
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Product Description
A complete record of the collection of designs in the V&A Museum, London.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Surfeit of Wm. de Morgan November 3, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Comprehensive view of Wm. de Morgan for the interested person. It covers a huge period in English ceramic art. This book has hundreds of his pieces or designs and tells his chronology as an artist. I will not lend it out; this is the ultimate compliment.

5 out of 5 stars

The best book on de Morgan's extraordinary work. October 14, 1998
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of de Morgan's work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1989, this book contains the complete collection of William de Morgan's original pottery and tile designs and drawings that was given to the museum after his death in 1917. With just about 20 pages of text of the total 256 pages, it is nearly all photographs with over 50 pages in color. De Morgan began working with William Morris in 1862, but after ten years he set up his own studio making tiles, vases, bowls and other domestic ceramics. His designs, inspired by brightly colored Middle-Eastern, Hispanic and Italian Renaissance pottery are beautiful. The forms of his vessels seem, for the most part, somewhat stilted but ocasionally they become organic enough to be satisfying to the modern eye. However his use of decoration is without equal except, perhaps, in some Hopi work. This book will be of interest to ceramic artists in particular, but any artist, art historian, or collector will enjoy it.

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