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Lucie Rie by Tony Birks (1994, Trade Paperback)
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This biography of Lucie Rie, a renowned potter and ceramist, is written by Tony Birks and published by Seven Hills Book Distributors in 1994. The book is a trade paperback with 225 pages and measures 11 inches in length, 8.7 inches in width, and 278mm in height. The book provides insights into Rie's life and work, as well as the pottery and ceramics industry. It is a great resource for artists, architects, photographers, and collectors. The book is illustrated with images of Rie's work and other pottery and ceramics. It is available in English language and has a weight of 33.6 oz.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSeven Hills Book Distributors
ISBN-100951770071
ISBN-139780951770078
eBay Product ID (ePID)1532922
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitleLucie Rie
Number of Pages225 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicArtists, Architects, Photographers, Pottery & Ceramics
Publication Year1994
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Antiques & Collectibles
AuthorTony Birks
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight33.6 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width8.7 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal738.092
SynopsisTony 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 combination of opposites, economy and luxuriance, lightness and dark. As a person, she showed the same combination of opposites. Her diminutive size belied her determination, her capacity for work. She received many honours, an OBE in 1968, a CBE in 1981, and was made a Dame in 1991. She was much written about, and was the subject of a BBC film. Lucie Rie died in 1995.
