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All rights reserved March 1988 3 4 Ceramics Monthly V olume 36, Number 3 • March 1988 Feature Articles The Leach Tradition by Linda Mosley............................................................22 Mindy ShragOby Maria Martinez-Canas........................................................33 Bernard Dejongheby Michele Moutashar ......................................................36 The Eloquent Object.....................................................................................39 The Leach Tradition(page 22) looks at with Crafts Is Art by John Perreault..................................................................40 the influence of Bernard Leach, shown above in the 1960s, through a recent exhibition and workshops featuring his former ap Anna Silver.....................................................................................................46 prentices. “When selecting students,” says Warren MacKenzie, “Leach always looked for a creative energy rather than skill in potting. He did not want students who Sixty Years of Seatde Sculptureby Matthew Kangas ....................................48 would make ‘Leach pots,’ but rather those who could develop their own aesthet ic. .. ” Photo: S. Burgess, J. Lotz. Crafts Is Art New York critic John Per Departments reault will get you excited again by bring ing some important new thinking to the Letters....................................................7 Itinerary.............................................. 17 craft/art debate. See page 40. Comment: Where to Show .....................................9 Craft Ethos Suggestions..........................................11 by David Baird ........................................20 New Books......................................... 77 Questions.............................................13 Classified Advertising ........................78 Film & Video......................................15 Index to Advertisers...........................80 News & Retrospect Andrea Gill Workshop Douglas Fey..................................................65 by Mark Chatterley ......................................57 Ian Godfrey...................................................67 Wollastonite Tile Bodies...............................57 California Cup Invitational ...........................67 Bernard Dejonghe For months his work Tom Spleth Mural .........................................57 The Urban-Gama revolved around a three-chambered climb Lee Rexrode..................................................57 by Clifford Jacobs........................................67 ing kiln (shown above), built inside the stu 300 Years of Salt Glaze................................58 Robert Brubaker............................................69 dio. Finally, the resulting glazed stoneware steles were installed—first in bright day Caryn Kreitzer...............................................59 Lizbeth Stewart.............................................69 light on a hilltop, then in the shadows of Ian Symons....................................................59 Southwest Clay............................................71 a cloister in Southern France; page 36. Catalog Listing Escalates Sales ....................59 Frank Giorgini...............................................71 Joan Weissman Mural by Susan York...................................................61 Bunny Tobias................................................73 The coverGlazed and lustered white- Arthur Gonzalez............................................73 ware vessel, 24 inches high, by Anna Silver, A Corporate Commission Brentwood, California; page 46. Photo: by Karen Koblitz ........................................ 63 Lewis Snyder................................................75 Anthony Cunha. Sackler Majolica Collection ......................... 65 Judith Cook...................................................75 Bonshommes de Terre ..................................65 Northwest Ceramics Today..........................79 March 1988 5 6 CERAMICS MONTHLY jars is also shown in the folder. This suggests is likely to be copied by economically moti that the British Post Office also had some vated craftspeople. Buyer beware. I also rec thoughts about Cardew’s omission, and soughtognize money as a trap that can lead artists Letters to recognize him in a lesser way. Also men away from their visions. tioned, but not shown in the stamp folder, are Can a functionally oriented person be an painter John Ruskin, designer William Morartist? Absolutely, if this is consistent with Potters' Stamps ris, ceramists William DeMorgan, William his/her vision. I do doubt that the artist would [What a] great idea for a stamp to com Staite Murray, Shoji Hamada, Alison Britton be worrying about what items will be the hot memorate potters, but CM’s list won’t do. and Jacqueline Poncelet. While making a case sellers this season. [See “Stamping Out Pottery” in the January for Michael Cardew’s inclusion (which would Can a nonfunctionally oriented person be issue.] United States Postal Service regula unbalance the equality of gender currently an artist? Absolutely, if this is consistent with tions prohibit anyone alive from being the presented by the stamps) it seems appro his/her vision. A note of caution: Just be subject of a stamp. Further, the subject must priate to also support the inclusion causeof it doesn’t look like a coffee mug, doesn’t be dead ten years, unless he/she was a U.S. DeMorgan and Staite Murray as well. Is mean it is art. President. CM just needs a different list and Elizabeth Fritsch really in the same league Do artists exist in all fields? Clay, paint (as any philatelist will tell you) up to ten as Coper, Leach and Rie? Many would rate ing, music, poetry, concrete, manufacturing, years and a lot of support. Michael Cardew first among those selected, engineering, etc. Yes, they do. However, the I’ll back the idea with a postcard. Good ranking him as Britain’s greatest potter. Why individual will oftentimes not be recognized luck. not just one Cardew stamp, then? Beginningas an artist until sometime later. The crafts Kathryn Narrow to see the problem? No selection of this kind, person is recognizable at a much earlier stage. Philadelphia regardless of how many different pottery Are you an artist? Everyone has periods stamps are issued, will create a cleanly bro of vision, however brief. Whether you are an Granted that no living subject may appear artist or not is largely dependent by the de on U.S. stamps, but it is quite allowable token line between greatness and just okay-ness feature, as the British did, works by ceramists, on which everyone can agree.—Ed. gree you live up to your vision. living or dead.—Ed. Is it better to be an artist? Or is it bad to Brave Commentary be a non-artist craftsperson? Each individual CM’s two-page spread on the recently