Things of beauty growing
Subtitle: British studio pottery
By: edited by Glenn Adamson, Martina Droth and Simon Olding ; with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Alison Britton, Kimberley Chandler, Edward S. Cooke Jr., Penelope Curtis, Tanya Harrod, Imogen Hart, Sequoia Miller, Simon Olding, and Julian Stair
Publisher: Yale Center for British Art; The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge; Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780300227468
Subjects: British Art pottery
Description: "For nearly a century British potters have invigorated traditional ceramic forms by developing or reinventing techniques, materials, and means of display. Things of Beauty Growing explores major typologies of the vessel--such as bowl, vase, and charger--that have defined studio ceramics since the early 20th century. It places British studio pottery within the context of objects from Europe, Japan, and Korea and presents essays by an international team of scholars and experts. The book highlights the objects themselves, including new works by Adam Buick, Halima Cassell, and Nao Matsunago, featured alongside works by William Staite Murray, Lucie Rie, Edmund de Waal, and others, many published here for the first time. Rounding out the beautifully illustrated volume is an interview with renowned collector John Driscoll and approximately fifty illustrated short biographies of significant makers"--
Notes: "This publication accompanies the exhibition Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery, co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, on view 14 September-3 December, 2017, and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, on view 20 March-18 June, 2018."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-458) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Circling / Alison Britton; title: Introduction / Glenn Adamson; title: From precepts to praxis: the origins of British studio pottery / Julian Stair; title: The ideology of the wheel / Edward S. Cooke Jr.; title: Studio ceramics and the factory: a sketch / Tanya Harrod; title: "Things in combination": exhibiting pots / Imogen Hart; title: British studio pottery in popular culture / Sequoia Miller; title: Communicating vessels: on the artistic licence ceramics offers sculpture / Penelope Curtis; title: Pottery and purpose / Glenn Adamson in conversation with John Driscoll; title: Catalogue; title: Biographies; title: Chronology of British studio pottery.