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hambone
(diaspora was a term coined by David Stannard as I recall)
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hambone
Lee
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Lee
Well I do think that is a worry and I only wish that when some of us went to the Houses of Parliament just before the Labour government got in and we were asked to say our piece and I said exactly what I say to you now - restructure your education and you will have a better system. They wrote it down, some of them wrote it down, I saw him writing. He might have been writing "not on your life", I don't know. But it hasn't happened.
Lee
Right, the last thing I want to write and end on a happy note is about revival. Talking to Peter Dworok about the Anagama kiln they have built at Rufford - I really do think that those people like those sort of middle 40s to early 50s are very important people now. They hold a lot in their hands. They can go forwards with techniques and with understanding of materials and processes and make sure that all that Leach way does not die out, and there will be a balanced spectrum for ceramics.
Are you up to it? The way I see it, we need to encourage to teens of 2007 to be more radical.
Lee in Mashiko, Japan
Mike
tree on my British Studio Pottery website. Hopefully this may be of
interest to some of you :
http://www.ceramike.com/LeachTree.asp
It is in its early stages of development so if anyone wants to
contribute information please let me know.
hambone
On Apr 24, 8:38 am, Lee <toge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have visited this site and have wondered by Jeff Oestrich isn't listed.
Now that is strange.
Detailed in the NCECA book are David Leach's apprentices, MacKenzie's
students (a few), Cardew's people, Kawaii's, Hamada's, but it never
mentions Yanagi as a potter - and Shimaoka's people get no mention.
So the book felt incomplete to me - it tended to only track
peripheral developments pertaining to Leach & Hamada & this is because
the idea of the book was to measure how Mingei affected the USA. This
is what the word diaspora means: Mingei is a worldwide movement which
is spreading and growing; I felt the book was too historical, it put
Mingei in a dated moment. It is important to mention that Hamada
encouraged Shimaoka to develop his own personal style - this is what
Hamada did with a number of people & is consistent with the way
Ferguson would discuss him - and adopt similar attitudes. Hamada did
not really think of Mingei as a "style" . Another thing about the book
is color plates of everybody's version of the rectangular bottle, it
would have been nicer to see more variety.
Myself, I have always been taken with Cardew's writing. It's
intellectually and technically rigorous with out engaging in pointless
dogmatism.
Rob Barnard's article on Leach and Yanagi:
www.rob-barnard.com/essays/2jin/jinsix/
- a review of DeWaal's book - threw light on things. I haven't seen
DeWaal's book
H A M
>
> On 4/24/07, hambone <kansaspot...@gmail.com> wrote:
hambone
"So I see two mountain ranges: one mountain range is concerned with
everything to do with that name Bernard Leach."
yes and the other was education
On my trips to England I made sure to see Bernard Leach and Casson's
pots up close - The Potteries Museum in Stoke offered that, and Leach
never was a Stoke fan. Any potter who loves Cardew's book has go to
go to Stoke. University of Staffordshire does an excellent job of
keeping up with the education end of it too.
H A M M Y
On Apr 24, 8:44 am, Lee <toge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/24/07, hambone <kansaspot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I thought Casson's words were apt.
> > H A M
> >http://www.aber.ac.uk/ceramics/michaelcasson.htm
>
> Can you point to specific quotes? Here is one I agree with totally.
> Education is EVERYTHING! Education through an undergradute degree should be
> free and base upon merit:
>
> > Well I do think that is a worry and I only wish that when some of us went
> > to the Houses of Parliament just before the Labour government got in and we
> > were asked to say our piece and I said exactly what I say to you now -
> > restructure your education and you will have a better system. They wrote it
> > down, some of them wrote it down, I saw him writing. He might have been
> > writing "not on your life", I don't know. But it hasn't happened.
>
> --
> Lee in Mashiko, Japanhttp://potters.blogspot.com/
Lee
>
> Here's the specific quote:
> "So I see two mountain ranges: one mountain range is concerned with
> everything to do with that name Bernard Leach."
> yes and the other was education
We have more distance from Leach in America. In Japan,
he is "the English gentleman potter."
>
> On my trips to England I made sure to see Bernard Leach and Casson's
> pots up close - The Potteries Museum in Stoke offered that, and Leach
> never was a Stoke fan. Any potter who loves Cardew's book has go to
> go to Stoke. University of Staffordshire does an excellent job of
> keeping up with the education end of it too.
My favorite Leach pots are the Sung inspired forms and his
lead glazed slipware. They are Universal. I think most of his
collected slipware is here in Japan.
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Lee in Mashiko, Japan