Lucie Rie Tapa dura - 1987

Sherborne : Alphabooks 1987.. First edition. A very good binding with illustrated dustwrapper. 11.0" x 9.0" x 0.75". pp.224. Clean dustwrapper, edges rubbed, lightly sunned, and price-clipped. No inscriptions. Ilustrated throughout. VG/VG.

Alphabooks, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Alphabooks 1987 fiurst edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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Sherborne, England: Alphabooks Ltd, 1987. Hardcover. NF/Good (dj has some shelf wear and is torn 2 inches at tail of spine). 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… Leer más