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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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Too much information - too little analysis,
This review is from: Bernard Leach: Life and Work (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (Hardcover)
The author has had access to a vast range of source material, but has managed to suspend his critical faculties in this detailed review of Bernard Leach.The title is a misnomer - this book rarely considers Leach's work. Barely 20 items are illustrated in the colour plates, and these are barely mentioned (and not properly referenced) in the text. In contrast there are over 30 pages of source material references (in very small print) at the back of the book, and reading is hampered by incessant numerical references to this section in the text. More frustrating are the early pictures of Leach in Japan, pictured against a display of his pots, yet this work is barely referenced and rarely discussed. If Leach's dictum was in the pot you know the man - well here we barely see the pot!. Leach's tom-cat behaviour is coyly described, and yet the book only leaps to life when it describes the mercurial Janet in the death-throes of the Leach pottery. What a book it could have been - but it needed a writer not an academic. Instead the life is glossed - and the work is lost
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Superbly detailed and readable account.,
By Drambuster (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bernard Leach: Life and Work (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (Hardcover)
Bernard Leach was undoubtedly the father of modern studio pottery. This well written biography is both entertaining and informative, giving a real insight into the man and his work.Many might see this is highly specialised and narrow. Whilst I primarily bought this because I am an amatuer potter, I was delighted to find that it was also a very, very good book in its own right.
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This review is from: Bernard Leach: Life and Work (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (Hardcover)
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 beingBernard 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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