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Titel och upphov The last sane man : Michael Cardew : modern pots, colonialism and the counterculture
Varianttitel Michael Cardew : modern pots, colonialism and counterculture
Utgivning, distribution etc. Yale University Press, New Haven : c2012
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Fysisk beskrivning xi, 457 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Anmärkning: Bibliografi etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN 978-0-300-10016-7 (hardback) 0-300-10016-7 (hardback)
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The British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, a husband and father who was also homosexual, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. Graduating from Oxford in 1923, training with the legendary Bernard Leach, he went on to lead a life of pastoral poverty in Gloucestershire, making majestic slipware and participating in the polarised design and political debates of the 1930s. A wartime project in Ghana turned him into a fierce critic of British overseas policies; he remained in West Africa intermittently until 1965, founding a local tradition of stoneware inspired by the ambient material culture, independent of European imports, made by Africans for Africans. He ended his days a ceramic magus, his pottery at Wenford Bridge, Cornwall, an outpost of the counterculture and a haven for disaffected youth. In North America, the Antipodes and sub-Saharan Africa he offered the egalitarianism of craft as an antidote to racism and inequality. As the novelist Angela Carter observed in 1977, he came to seem 'the Last Sane Man in a crazy world.'
Along with historians of Empire and civil rights, and art and design historians, readers with a general interest in British cultural history will want to read this book.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Acknowledgements p. viii Introduction p. 1 England The Money Box: Michael's Ancestors p. 9 'a very lucky and lovely childhood': Wimbledon and Saunton p. 17 Wartime p. 27 Literae Humaniores: 1919-23 p. 35 St Ives: 1923-5 p. 47 Agonies of Spirit: 1925-6 p. 63 Winchcombe: 1926-30 p. 67 Love and Success: 1930-2 p. 93 Marriage: 1932-3 p. 103 Family: 1934-8 p. 117 Wartime in Cornwall: 1939-42 p. 137 Leaving: 1942 p. 153 West Africa Achimota: the Gold Coast, 1942 p. 161 'the great love that came to me': the Gold Coast, 1943-4 p. 173 'it's the sun or something': the Gold Coast, 1944-5 p. 189 The Volta Pottery: the Gold Coast, 1945-8 p. 201 England - Gold Coast - Nigeria: 1948-50 p. 222 'a proper colonial servant': Nigeria, 1950-1 p. 235 Abuja: Creating a National Art, 1951-5 p. 249 Pots for London: Abuja, 1956-60 p. 269 I can never leave W. A.': Abuja, 1960-5 p. 287 Michael as Magus Homecoming: 1965-7 p. 305 America Dreaming: 1967-8 p. 313 New Zealand and Australia: 1968 p. 320 Teaching at Wenford: 1969-71 p. 335 Two Journeys in Search of Black America: 1971-2 p. 344 Mud and Water Man: 1972-5 p. 353 Superpeasant: 1975-6 p. 363 Romantic Refusal: 1977-8 p. 374 The Sun in Winter: 1979-81 p. 385 A Terrible Mystery: 1981-2 p. 397 Last Days: 1983 p. 409 Epilogue p. 413 Notes p. 415 Index p. 443 Illustration credits p. 458