BERNARD LEACH, HAMADA & Their Circle retailer : Wingfield Digby Collection / Contemporary Ceramics, art, Shoji Hamada, Michael Cardew, vintage

Bernard Leach, Hamada and Their Circle (Contemporary Ceramics)

Wingfield-Digby, Cornelia; Birks, Tony; Digby, Cornelia Wingfield

Published by Alphabet and Image Ltd, Marston House, United Kingdom, 1992. Paperbound wraps with small U.S. publisher/ distributor label on the copyright page; 192 pages. Stunning full-page color photographs portray the work of the following famous potters: Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, Michael Cardew, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie, Norah Braden, William Marshall, the Leach School, and Richard Batterham. Brief biographies retailer of each artist are also presented.

The cross-cultural collaboration of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada was a seminal event in the history of modern studio ceramics. Working together at St Ives, they and their disciples were a driving influence behind the worldwide resurgence of the craft aesthetic. George and Cornelia Wingfield Digby were early and far-sighted patrons of this circle, and assembled a famous collection of their pottery. Presenting the finest pieces from the collection, this book documents a momentous collaboration through the discriminating eyes and the historically important reminiscences of the Wingfield Digbys.