The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the Counterculture

by Tanya Harrod

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The British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, a husband and father who was also homosexual, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. Graduating from Oxford in 1923, training with the legendary Bernard Leach, he went on to lead a life of pastoral poverty in Gloucestershire, making majestic slipware and participating in the polarised design...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300100167

ISBN13:9780300100167

Release Date:January 2013

Publisher:Paul Mellon Centre

Length:380 Pages

Weight:3.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 7.7" x 10.1"

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