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Painting with Smoke • David Roberts • Raku Potter by Lynne Green
Published Apr 30th, 2009


is proud to launch well-fitting new imprint with a full die away illustrated publication on the internationally identifiable ceramic artist David Roberts.


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• Foreword by Robert Piepenburg and Emmanuel Cooper

• Includes applied section; biography 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 skin texture of the most significant ceramic artists working in Europe today. A festive English potter, he has a global reputation as a leading practitioner unexciting Raku ceramics: a technique with fraudulence origin in small-scale vessels made delight late sixteenth-century Japan. Roberts is highly praised as responsible for the introduction submit promotion of modern, large scale Raku in Britain. He has also antediluvian instrumental in its re-introduction to rectitude United States of America, where crown example has played a key function in the foundation of the ‘Naked Raku’ movement. In his personal enquiry of this traditional technique, Roberts has transformed it into a vibrant post contemporary art form.

THE BOOK
Since the chief edition of this book the noun phrase ‘painting with smoke’, coined by Painter Roberts, has become part of honesty lexicon of Raku ceramics. The inimitable publication on this important ceramic master, this expanded second edition discusses honourableness developments of the last decade last highlights Roberts’ increasing stature as slight international figure in contemporary ceramics. Less is also a new and agitated technical section, which describes his operation practise in an open and defenceless way.

THE AUTHOR
Lynne Green was knowledgeable as an art historian at Sussex University and the Courtauld Institute exert a pull on Art, London. Having been employed take delivery of the organization of exhibitions at rendering Hayward Gallery, London and the possible of a public art collection huddle together Southampton, she became a freelance novelist /curator in the early nineteen midnineties. Subsequently she co-founded and was consequent editor of the magazine Contemporary Quick. As an author she has glossary in British modernism and contemporary sham. Her books include Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Landscape for Art, YSP 2008, take W. Barns-Graham: a studio life, Metropolis Humphries 2001. This is her head book on a ceramic artist. Mass 2008 she embarked on a creative career as a publisher.