The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and Counterculture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art): Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the Counterculture - Hardcover

Tanya Harrod

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300100167 ISBN 13: 9780300100167

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Rare Book

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Review:

"A remarkably full, eloquent, and even-keeled account."--Christopher Benfey, New Republic
--Christopher Benfey "New Republic "

"Perceptive [and] impeccably researched . . . .The intensity of Harrod's lens reveals this 'grand amateur' - who never wanted his biography written - as a fascinating and wilful figure, whose life encompassed an incongruous mix of modernism, Empire, craft and self-sufficiency."--Julian Stair, Crafts Magazine

--Crafts Magazine

"Tanya Harrod has written the first great biography of a potter . . . a fearless and lucid account of a perplexing potter whose pots are among the most iconic of the 20th century." --Mark Hewitt, Ceramics Monthly-- (04/05/2013)

Winner of the 2013 James Tait Black Prizes for Biography, sponsored by the University of Edinburgh.-- (05/21/2013)

Shortlisted for the 2013 Art Book Prize given by the Authors' Club to the best book on art or architecture.-- (01/07/2014)

About the Author:

Tanya Harrod is an independent design historian, the author of the prize-winning The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century and the co-editor of the Journal of Modern Craft.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0300100167
• ISBN 13: 9780300100167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380