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By Bernard Leach
In our time, Bernard Leach has performed for pottery what Henry Moore has performed for scuplture. This... infinitely lucrative ebook is an account of his pilgrimage via life.' Times
Bernard Leach (1887-1979) used to be as well known in Japan and the East as in Europe and the US, either as an artist-craftsman and as a philosopher. His interpretation of the traditions of the Orient within the making of pots - and in evolving a philosophy of lifestyles - was once a lodestar for lots of potters within the West.
Beyond East and West, first released in 1978, is greater than an autobiography. jam-packed with sharply-etched and fun memories, it includes a lot of Leach's deeper inspiration and greatly too in regards to the useful program of his rules. Its recurrent topic is the assembly of East and West in any respect degrees - creative, cultural, social, political.
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