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The father of British studio pottery looks back on a life lived between two worlds. Beyond East and West by Bernard Leach (1887–1979) — first published in 1978 — is more than an autobiography: it is the story of an artist who spent his life building bridges between East and West.
Leach founded the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall, in 1920 with the Japanese potter Shoji Hamada, after years of study in Japan that changed him forever. In these memoirs, portraits, and essays, he writes with warmth and candor about the potters, painters, and friends who shaped his world — and about a philosophy of craft in which beauty and usefulness are one.
Essential reading for potters, craftspeople, and anyone fascinated by the meeting of cultures — Leach’s years in Japan with Shoji Hamada shaped everything — and his writing about that friendship is among the book’s finest passages. the intimate self-portrait of a great maker and thinker.
The father of British studio pottery looks back on a life lived between two worlds. Beyond East and West: Memoirs, Portraits and Essays by Bernard Leach (1887–1979) — first published in 1978 — is more than an autobiography: it is the story of an artist who spent his life building bridges between East and West.
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Leach founded the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall, in 1920 with the Japanese potter Shoji Hamada, after years of study in Japan that changed him forever. In these memoirs, portraits, and essays, he writes with warmth and candor about the potters, painters, and friends who shaped his world — from Japanese masters to the artists of St Ives — and about a philosophy of craft in which beauty and usefulness are one.
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Essential reading for potters, craftspeople, and anyone fascinated by the meeting of cultures, this is the intimate self-portrait of a great maker and thinker — a book to treasure and return to often.
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