Lucie Rie

Birks, Tony

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Language: English

Published by Alphabooks Ltd, Sherborne, England, 1987

0906670462 / 9780906670460

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Chocolate brown cloth/boards; yellow script lettering. Color-photographic dj with black lettering. 224 pp. full of color plates and bw photos. Tony Birks' much praised biography was written with the full cooperation of the potter, whose friendship with the author spanned more than a quarter of a century It stands as the only complete account of the life and work of this extraordinary figure in European ceramics Lucie Rie made her first pots in 1923, her last in 1990. Born Lucie Gomperz in Vienna in 1902, she came to England in 1938 to escape the Nazis. Her artistic achievement closely related to the encouragement and personal inspiration provided by a series of men. As Lucie herself said, "I am man-made". Simple, yet infinitely subtle and complex, Lucie Rie pots approach excellence not by refinement to an ever purer shape: it is by their sturdiness and their frailty: a combination of opposites, economy and luxuriance, lightness and dark. As a person, she showed the same combination of opposites. Her diminutive size belied her determination, her capacity for work. She received many honours, an OBE in 1968, a CBE in 1981, and was made a Dame in 1991. She was much written about, and was the subject of a BBC film. Lucie Rie died in 1995. NF/Good (dj has some shelf wear and is torn 2 inches at tail of spine).…

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Title
Lucie Rie
Author
Birks, Tony
Publisher
Alphabooks Ltd, Sherborne, England
Publication year
1987
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0906670462
ISBN 13
9780906670460
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