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The Last Sane Man - Michael Cardew Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture

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The Last Sane Man - Michael Cardew Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture
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Bib. Number0022655

The Last Sane Man - Michael Cardew Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture

Author/EditorHARROD Tanya
Place PublishedNew Haven and London
Year
Date & Collationxii.458pp.Illus.Notes.Index.Illustration Credits.
LanguageEnglish
More Information94 Moore mentioned as a contemporary of Michael Cardew, alongside Enid Marx, Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden. 97 Moore's figurative concrete wall lights" were included by the painter Paul Nash in Room and Book and exhibition held at Zwemmer's in 1932 on furnishings for a modern interior. See Study for wall light 1928 terracotta (LH 49 and 50). 98 Moore listed as exhibiting with the National Society of Painters Sculptors Engravers and Potters alongside Frank Dobson Maurice Lambert John & Barbara Skeaping (Hepworth) and Leon Underwood. 101 Cardew compared to Moore "seen as a ceramic equivalent ... representing an English vernacular while also drawing on non-European cultures". 143 Cardew purchased by Moore."