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22: 102:, a leading figure in the mingei movement, said that a craft object "must be made by an anonymous craftsman or woman and therefore unsigned; it must be functional, simple, and have no excess ornamentation; it must be one of many similar pieces and must be inexpensive; it must be unsophisticated; it must reflect the region it was made in; and it must be made by hand." 44:
that favoured plain, utilitarian ceramics. Watson said that the ethical pot,"lovingly made in the correct way and with the correct attitude, would contain a spiritual and moral dimension." Its leading proponents were
90:, "naturally shaped" and originally as conceived should derive from "Oriental forms that transcended mere good looks." Leach had previously spent considerable time in Japan studying eastern crafts and 98:
for the western world; he advocated simplicity (ideally the best pots are so quick to make that they could be "thrown before breakfast"), and pots made to look natural and hand crafted.
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According to ceramic art critics of today, this pot style was intended to be modernist, useful, and "democratic in usage" as opposed to the
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Transcript of Yanagi's talk at the first International Conference of Potters and Weavers, Darlington Hall, Devon, England, 1952
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and a more controversial group of post-war British studio potters. They were theoretically opposed to the
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Studio Pottery: Twentieth Century British Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Studio Pottery: Twentieth Century British Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum
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A Ceramic History: Pioneering Definitions 1900-1940 The Studio Pot.
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Critical Ceramics: The "Unknown Craftsmen" is Dead.
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Leach Pottery
studio pottery
Bernard Leach
fine art pots
William Staite Murray
Lucie Rie
Hans Coper
Bernard Leach
utilitarian
mingei
mingei
Soetsu Yanagi
fine art pot
Bernard Leach
Michael Cardew
Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie
Norah Braden
David Leach
William Marshall
Richard Batterham
Warren MacKenzie
Byron Temple
New Zealand
Len Castle
Ian Sprague
Studio pottery
Mingei

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