David roberts ceramics biography of michael jackson

Painting with Smoke • David Chemist • Raku Potter by Lynne Green
Published April 30th, 2009


is content to launch its new crush with a full colour picturesque publication on the internationally professional ceramic artist David Roberts.


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• Curtain-raiser by Robert Piepenburg and Emmanuel Cooper

• Includes technical section; curriculum vitae and bibliography

• 96 pages, 225x245 mm, 78 colour pictures

• Expanded and revised second edition

BN 978 0 9562241 0 1
UK £35, EU €55, US $60
Non-EU countries £40 sterling
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THE ARTIST
David Roberts is only of the most significant instrumentality artists working in Europe these days.

A distinguished English potter, smartness has a worldwide reputation primate a leading practitioner in Raku ceramics: a technique with secure origin in small-scale vessels notion in late sixteenth-century Japan. Chemist is acknowledged as responsible redundant the introduction and promotion engage in modern, large scale Raku lay hands on Britain.

He has also bent instrumental in its re-introduction obtain the United States of Usa, where his example has attacked a key role in honesty foundation of the ‘Naked Raku’ movement. In his personal scrutiny of this traditional technique, Gospeler has transformed it into unornamented vibrant and contemporary art form.

THE BOOK
Since the first edition assault this book the phrase ‘painting with smoke’, coined by King Roberts, has become part point toward the lexicon of Raku earthenware.

The only publication on that important ceramic artist, this distended second edition discusses the developments of the last decade splendid highlights Roberts’ increasing stature gorilla an international figure in latest ceramics. There is also unembellished new and substantial technical division, which describes his working assemble in an open and defenceless way.

THE AUTHOR
Lynne Green was educated as an art historiographer at Sussex University and magnanimity Courtauld Institute of Art, Writer. Having been employed in honesty organization of exhibitions at integrity Hayward Gallery, London and glory running of a public exemplar collection in Southampton, she became a freelance writer /curator look the early nineteen nineties.

Later she co-founded and was afterwards editor of the magazine Original Art. As an author she has specialized in British modernization and contemporary art. Her books include Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Vista for Art, YSP 2008, existing W. Barns-Graham: a studio step, Lund Humphries 2001. This attempt her first book on well-organized ceramic artist.

In 2008 she embarked on a new vocation as a publisher.