Beyond East and West - Memoirs, Portraits and Essays

Informationen zum Autor Bernard Leach (1887-1979) was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century pottery. Born in Hong Kong and brought up in Japan! Hong Kong and England! he trained at the London School of Art and moved to Japan in 1909! where he studied pottery techniques. In 1920 on his return to England he founded the Leach Pottery with Shoji Hamada in St Ives! Cornwall. His best-known work! A Potter's Book ! was first published in 1940. Klappentext Bernard Leach (1887-1979) was as renowned in Japan and the East as in Europe and America! both as an artist-craftsman and as a thinker. This autobiography contains much of his deeper thought and a great deal too about the practical application of his ideas. Zusammenfassung 'In our time, Bernard Leach has done for pottery what Henry Moore has done for scuplture. His interpretation of the traditions of the Orient in the making of pots - and in evolving a philosophy of life - was a lodestar for many potters in the West. Beyond East and West, first published in 1978, is more than an autobiography.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Leach, Leach Bernard
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9780571296125
• ISBN: 978-0-571-29612-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / Ceramics, ART / History / General, Pottery, ceramics & glass crafts, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Glass, The arts, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Individual artists, art monographs, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Ceramics: artworks, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks