Bernard Leach
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Life and Work
Emmanuel Cooper
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Widely recognized as the father of studio pottery, Bernard Leach (1887–1979) played a pioneering role in creating an identity for artist potters in Britain and around the world. Born in the East (Hong Kong) and educated in the West (England), throughout his life Leach perceived himself as a courier between the disparate cultures. His exquisite pots reflect the inspiration he drew from East and West as well as his response to the basic tenets of modernism—truth to materials, the importance of function to form, and simplicity of decoration. This outstanding biography provides for the first time a vivid and detailed account of Leach’s life and its relation to his art.
Emmanuel Cooper, himself a potter of international reputation, explores Leach’s working methods, the seams of his pottery, his writings and philosophy, his recognition in Japan and Britain, and his continuing legacy, bringing into sharp focus a complex man who captured in his work as a potter the “still center” that always eluded him in his tumultuous personal life.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Emmanuel Cooper is an artist potter and visiting professor of ceramics and glass at the Royal College of Art in London. He is editor of Ceramic Review: The International Magazine of Ceramic Art and Craft and has published many books and articles on the visual arts.
Publication Date: July 9, 2003
Publishing Partner: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
