Susie Cooper : an elegant affair

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Title:

Author:

Youds, Bryn.

ISBN:

9780500278888

Personal Author:

Youds, Bryn.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 38 cm

Contents:

Prologue: 1902-23 -- The Deco Years: 1923-29 -- Independence: 1929-32 -- The Leaping Deer: 1932-34 -- Expansion and Disaster: 1934-45 -- Designs on the Future: 1946-65 -- Wedgwood: 1966-80 -- Epilogue: 1980-95 -- Pattern Lists -- Shapes -- Back Stamps.

Abstract:

One of the most profoundly inventive and varied achievements in twentieth-century design, the work of Susie Cooper holds up a mirror to the history of the decorative arts in this century, from the Art Deco twenties to the present day. Her life was one of exceptional creativity coupled with commercial success, recognized in 1987 in a major retrospective exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. It is now celebrated, shortly after her death at the age of.

Ninety-two, by this magnificent, large-format presentation of her work, illustrated with superb colour photographs by Earl Beesley of all her most important pieces. The book is completed by invaluable documentation of her techniques, key patterns, shapes and stamps.

Personal Subject:

Cooper, Susie, 1902-1995-Criticism and interpretation.

Cooper, Susie.

Cooper, Susie, 1902-1995 (OCoLC)fst00039172

Subject Term:

Pottery, English -- 20th century.

Pottery, English. (OCoLC)fst01073721

Keramiek.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635

Added Author:

Beesley, Earl A.

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Inventive and varied, the colourful and highly collectible work of Susie Cooper holds up a mirror to the history of decorative arts this century, from the Art Deco '20s to the present day. Like her contemporary Clarice Cliff, Susie Cooper is now seen as one of the most significant innovators in world ceramics, a status reflected both in the prices paid for her work and in numerous exhibitions. This large-format book, published not long after her death at the age of 93, celebrates a lifetime's work of 70 years, illustrating in colour a selection of ceramics from all periods of her career. Elegance with utility was Susie Cooper's perceptive description of her work, a phrase which embraces the entire range of her oeuvre, from the dramatic Art Deco lustreware and the whimsical tableware to the adventurous designs for Wedgwood.