Lucie Rie : modernist potter / Emmanuel Cooper.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, Description: xv, 328 pages [80] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300152005
  • 0300152000
Other title:
  • Modernist potter
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 738.092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • NK4210.R5 C66 2012
Contents:
Introduction -- Ah, Vienna 1902-1912 -- A model pupil, 1912-1922 -- Lost to the wheel, 1922-1926 -- A studio of one's own, 1926-1930 -- A young pottery-worker of fine taste, 1930-1935 -- Tomorrow is another day, 1935-1938 -- A high class potter, 1938-1941 -- Potter and button maker, 1941-1946 -- Make in your own way, 1946-1950 -- A class apart, 1950-1958 -- Organic geometry, 1958-1967 -- Metropolitan potter, metropolitan pots, 1967-1980 -- Pottery is my profession, 1980-1990 -- The persistence of pots, 1990-1995 -- Chronology -- Exhibitions.
Summary: "[Austrian-born] Lucie Rie (1902-1995) ... combined an acute understanding of modernism with the skills of her chosen craft. During the course of her sixty-year career, she continually honed and refined her work, developing new shapes and surface effects that were distinctly her own. Her delicately shaped bowls, bottles and other vessels reflect her commitment to simplicity and clarity of form, earning her both critical and popular acclaim. ..."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.

Introduction -- Ah, Vienna 1902-1912 -- A model pupil, 1912-1922 -- Lost to the wheel, 1922-1926 -- A studio of one's own, 1926-1930 -- A young pottery-worker of fine taste, 1930-1935 -- Tomorrow is another day, 1935-1938 -- A high class potter, 1938-1941 -- Potter and button maker, 1941-1946 -- Make in your own way, 1946-1950 -- A class apart, 1950-1958 -- Organic geometry, 1958-1967 -- Metropolitan potter, metropolitan pots, 1967-1980 -- Pottery is my profession, 1980-1990 -- The persistence of pots, 1990-1995 -- Chronology -- Exhibitions.

"[Austrian-born] Lucie Rie (1902-1995) ... combined an acute understanding of modernism with the skills of her chosen craft. During the course of her sixty-year career, she continually honed and refined her work, developing new shapes and surface effects that were distinctly her own. Her delicately shaped bowls, bottles and other vessels reflect her commitment to simplicity and clarity of form, earning her both critical and popular acclaim. ..."--Jacket.

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