From Library Journal
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., PhiladelphiaCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Kurzbeschreibung
A complete history of pottery in Britain, tracing from rudimentary pots of the Middle Ages to the intellectually ambitious art of today's studio potters.
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