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St. Ives

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St. Ives

St. Ives
St. Ives
St. Ives
St. Ives
St. Ives
St. Ives
St. Ives

St. Ives

£24


Author  

Various

Publisher  

The Japan Association of Art Museums

Date  

1989

Format  

Softback

Size  

22.5cm x 28.5cm

Description  

180 glossy pages
Profusely illustrated throughout
Text in English and Japanese

Condition  

The book is very good condition with no creases on the spine

UK Postage  

First Class Recorded - £5.24

Other Postage

At cost


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This book was produced to accompany an exhibition of the art and pottery of St. Ives 1939-1964 which toured Japan in 1989. Its text is part Japanese, part English and includes the following essays.

St. Ives and the Landscape of the Lelant peninsula

Patrick Heron

The Artist's Colony of St. Ives

Tadayasu Sakai

St. Ives: Development as an Artist Colony

David Brown

Postwar Painting in St. Ives

Junichi Shioda

St. Ives, Ceramics and Bernard Leach

Oliver Watson

Japan and St. Ives: A friendship between East and West

Masako Shimuzu

 

In addition, there are biographical notes on the artists and potters whose work featured in the exhibition:

Terry Frost

Norah Braden

Naum Gabo

Michael Cardew

Barbara Hepworth

Kenji Funaki

Patrick Heron

Shoji Hamada

Roger Hilton

Kanjiro Kawai

Peter Lanyon

Bernard Leach

Ben Nicholson

David Leach

Alfred Wallis

Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie

Christopher Wood

Kenneth Quick

 

Kenkichi Tomimoto