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A Potter's Book by Bernard Leach
Booksplease Price: £18.57Written by Bernard Leach, the father of British studio pottery, this seminal book is the first treatise to be written by a potter on the workshop traditions handed down from the greatest period of... -
A Potter's Book by Bernard Leach 9780571283675
Booksplease Price: £16.00'I have tried to formulate a criterion by which good pots may be judged . . . a pot in order to be good should be a genuine expression of life. It implies sincerity on the part of the potter and... -
Bernard Leach: Life and Work Emmanuel Cooper 9781913107116
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.87An exceptionally thoughtful and well-written biography of one of the most influential studio potters in Britain Widely recognized as the father of studio pottery, Bernard Leach (1887-1979) played a... -
Beyond East and West: Memoirs, Portraits and Essays by Bernard Leach 9781912690213
Booksplease Price: £23.44Bernard 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. His interpretation of the traditions of the Orient in the... -
Beyond East and West: Memoirs, Portraits and Essays by Bernard Leach 9780571296125
Booksplease Price: £14.75'In our time, Bernard Leach has done for pottery what Henry Moore has done for scuplture. This... infinitely rewarding book is an account of his pilgrimage through life.' TimesBernard Leach... -
Contemporary Raku by Stephen Murfitt 9781785009938
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.57Contemporary Raku is a complete guide to this exciting, dramatic and beautiful art form. It explains the making, glazing and firing methods employed for producing Raku-ware, and features... -
Shoji Hamada: A Potters Way and Work by Susan Peterson
Booksplease Price: £28.32An in-depth portrait of the life and work of Shoji Hamada, one of the key figures behind the development of studio pottery in the 20th century, and the legacy he left. Shoji Hamada was one of the... -
The Cat by Emilia Will
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.34A charming gift book, celebrating the cats in Tate's collection Following Tate's publication Love, this new selection of works showcases the most endearing, quirky, and amusing depictions of cats... -
Raku by Tim G. Andrews
Booksplease Price: £28.82The essential guide to raku techniques, covering clay types, glazes, kilns, firing methods and reduction processes. Over the last thirty years interest in the raku pottery technique has grown... -
By My Hands: A Potter’s Apprenticeship by Florian Gadsby 9781837310289
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43A young ceramicist's journey from apprentice potter to celebrated craftsmanFlorian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection - and as his skill... -
Janet Leach: Potter by Joanna Wason 9781916846005
Booksplease Price: £17.10Janet Darnell's childhood in Texas during the Roaring Twenties and the Depression imbued her with resilience and practical skills, largely acquired on her grandparents' farm. Aged 19 she took a bus... -
Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan by Grace Lavery
Booksplease Price: £36.63How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian... -
Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan by Grace Lavery 9780691227795
Booksplease Price: £25.21How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian... -
Ceramics in America 2004 by Robert Hunter 9780972435338
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.98The 2004 issue features many important articles including the first color publication of America's earliest stoneware factory-The Poor Potter of Yorktown. In addition, other articles feature... -
Contemporary Ceramics by Emmanuel Cooper
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.05This fresh global survey makes sense of a vast and increasingly diverse area of intense creativity. An essential and invaluable analysis of work from the last ten years, the book covers every aspect... -
Unknown Craftsman, The: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty by Soetsu Yanagi 9781568365206
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.23craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi... -
Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter Emmanuel Cooper 9781913107307
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.21The 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... -
Pierre Culot by Anne Bony 9780300270136
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.45Pierre Culot (1938-2011) was a Belgian ceramist and sculptor who was trained by Antoine de Vinck and English master potter Bernard Leach. He is one of the ceramists of the 1950s who transformed their... -
Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics Brian Moeran (Universities of Hong Kong at Exeter, UK and Zheijiang Gongshan, China) 9780700710393
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware... -
Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory: Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism by Yuko Kikuchi 9780415405829
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Conceptualised in 1920s Japan by Yanagi Soetsu, the Mingei movement has spread world wide since the 1950s, creating phenomena as diverse as Mingei museums, Mingei connoisseurs and collectors, Mingei... -
Painting the Warmth of the Sun: St Ives Artists 1939-1975 by Tom Cross 9780718829421
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £49.62By 1918 St Ives had a long tradition as an artists' community. It took as its standard the Royal Academy, which retained great popular appeal, but was neither forward-looking nor progressive. In 1920... -
The Elmhirsts of Dartington by Michael Young
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst were the founders of Dartington - she the daughter of an American millionaire who was once Secretary to the US Navy; he the son of a Yorkshire parson and secretary to... -
The Last Potter of Black Burton: Richard Bateson and the potteries of Burton-in-Lonsdale by Lee Cartledge 9781789631838
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The pottery industry was key for Burton-in-Lonsdale on the borders of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria for nearly three centuries until its demise in 1944. This book tells the story of Richard... -
Mingei: Art Without Heroes by Roisin Inglesby 9780300274288
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.74An exploration of the evolution of the Japanese Mingei (folk art) movement within the context of today's concerns Originating in Japan in the 1920s, the Mingei movement was based on the principle... -
The St Ives Artists: New Edition: A Biography of Place and Time by Michael Bird
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.51First published by Lund Humphries in 2008, The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time has become the classic account of the St Ives group of artists. Our beautifully produced new edition,... -
Simon Leach's Pottery Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Throwing Beautiful, Functional Pots by Simon Leach
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £22.78Lively, informative and full of original tips and techniques Simon's YouTube videos have lit the ceramics world on fire, becoming a must-see supplement to most potters' educations. But therein lies... -
The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century by Tanya Harrod 9780300077803
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.89From ceramics to silversmithing, calligraphy to textiles, hot glass to bookbinding, crafts have played a rich and complex role in the social, cultural, and artistic history of twentieth-century... -
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de WaalThe daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects,... -
Studio Ceramics (Victoria and Albert Museum): British Studio Pottery 1900 to Now by Alun Graves
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £45.75A magnificent catalogue of the V&A's collection of twentieth-century and contemporary British ceramics. Contemporary ceramicists working in Britain, including Rachel Kneebone, Grayson Perry and... -
The Craft Reader by Glenn Adamson 9781350092648
Booksplease Price: £40.68From the canonical texts of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical thinking of today's "DIY" movement, from theoretical writings on the position of craft in distinction to Art and Design to... -
The Alfred Wallis Factor: Conflict in Post-War St Ives Art by David Wilkinson 9780718894979
Booksplease Price: £28.10Since his death in 1942, St Ives has become marinated in the spirit of the naive painter, Alfred Wallis. Naum Gabo, the Russian Constructivist, felt that Wallis's gift as an artist was that he never... -
The Japanese Pottery Handbook by Penny Simpson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.25This compact reference explains the basic terms, processes, classifications, tools, materials and techniques of Japanese potters. Everyone interested in pottery and crafts will find this practical... -
Beyond Disability: Towards an Enabling Society by Gerald Hales 9780803979574
Booksplease Price: £54.15This important text draws together a wealth of experience to present theoretical and practical insights into the way society intervenes in the lives of disabled people, and considers how resources... -
The Place of Objects: The John David Lawrence Collection Dr. Michael J. Prokopow 9781773272719
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.53An eclectically curated collection reveals a kaleidoscopic portrait of the many and diverse talents working in and around BC's art scene over the past forty years.As a musician, performer, activist,...