Lucie Rie & Hans Coper

Lucie Rie & Hans Coper

Author: Margot Coatts

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780713646979

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Published to coincide with the opening at the Barbican Art Gallery, this book compares the careers of two of the world's most famous potters and assesses their impact on modern ceramics


Modern Pots

Modern Pots

Author: Cyril Frankel

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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This is the first major publication devoted to the work of the outstanding group of studio potters in the second half of the 20th century. The collection recorded is the preeminent, representative collection of the work of Lucie Rie (1902-95) and Hans Coper (1920-81), while also including important examples of the works of some 20 other potters - including Shoji Hamada, Bernard Leach, Janet Leach, Maria Martinez, Ewen Henderson, Ian Godfrey, and James Tower - as well as a group of younger artists whose inclusion is testimony to Lisa Sainsbury's untiring search for promising young talent in this field.


Lucie Rie

Lucie Rie

Author: Emmanuel Cooper

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9781913107307

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The life and legacy of brilliant but elusive potter Lucie Rie is investigated through interviews, letters and the analysis of her elegant, modernist vessels Lucie Rie (1902-1995), one of the 20th century's most celebrated and iconic potters, combined an acute understanding of modernism with the skills of her chosen craft. Emmanuel Cooper, a distinguished potter who knew Rie, interviewed many of her friends and acquaintances to produce this complete and detailed account of Rie's life and work. The author was given unrestricted access by the Rie estate to previously unpublished letters and other material, which provide fascinating new insights into her life and work and allowed him to reevaluate Rie's creative output within the broader context of modernism and the emergence of the studio pottery movement in Britain. 'It [is] unlikely that this biography of Rie will ever be surpassed.' --Frances Spalding, Literary Review 'A precious gift, from the only man who could have written it.' --Glenn Adamson, Crafts Magazine


Hans Coper

Hans Coper

Author: Tony Birks

Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781840336221

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Counter Space

Counter Space

Author: Juliet Kinchin

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0870708082

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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sept. 15, 2010-May 2, 2011.


The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony

The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony

Author: Helen Walsh

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781913645151

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The remarkable collection of the UK's most prolific collector of postwar British studio pottery. In the latter half of the twentieth century, "professional Yorkshireman" W. A. Ismay (1910-2001) amassed over 3,600 pieces by more than 500 potters. Surrounded by his family of pots, he lived in a tiny terraced house in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and left his collection and its associated archive to the city of York upon his death. This eclectic group of works contains objects created by many of the most significant potters working in the United Kingdom, including Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Bernard Leach, and Michael Cardew, as well as lesser-known makers. With new academic research into this little-studied collection and archive, Yorkshire Tea Ceremony explores Ismay's journey as a collector and offers fresh perspectives on a marginalized area of British Modernism. Tracing the collection's journey from private to public ownership illuminates issues surrounding the acquisition and reveals the transformative effect it has had on both curatorial practice and the ambition of regional public institutions. The W.A. Ismay Collection offers a well-documented example of the valuable contribution collectors can make to the British studio ceramics movement. Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the collection's move from private to public ownership, this volume accompanies an exhibition at York Art Gallery's Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA).