Publications

BOOKS:

Year One
Photography by Garry Fabian Miller
Text by Edmund De Waal
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
2007

Edmund de Waal
Photography by Helene Binet
Essays by Jorunn Veiteberg and Helen Waters
Kettle's Yard / mima
2007

Rethinking Bernard Leach: Studio Pottery and Contemporary Ceramics
(Japanese Edition)
Shibunkaku Publishing Co.
2007
Downloadable .pdf - Compressed File (2.0MB)
Downloadable .pdf - Large File (13.5MB)

Twentieth Century Ceramics, Thames and Hudson, 2003

Design Sourcebook: Ceramics, New Holland Publishers, 1999
Dutch, German, American editions 1999
UK paperback edition 2003

Bernard Leach, Tate Publishing, 1998
new edition 1999, new edition 2003
Japanese edition 2006 with additional chapters

 

OTHER TEXTS

ORIENTALISM AND ETHNICITY:

"Looking in the opposite direction: the West's response to Japanese Crafts" in Ceramic Review Volume 225, 2007

Review of ‘Japonisme: Cultural Crossings between Japan and the West by Lionel Lambourne’, Ceramic Review March / April 2005

‘The cultures of collecting and display’ in International Arts and Crafts edited by Karen Livingston and Linda Parry Victoria and Albert Museum 2005

‘A Little Corner of Japan that is forever England’ The Victoria and Albert Museum Magazine Spring 2005

Review of Mingei by Yuko Kikuchi, Ceramic Review 2004

" 'Art without finish’: Japanese Arts in the West” ”inTimeless Beauty: Traditional Japanese Art from the Montgomery Collection of Japanese Art, Skira, 2002

"Altogether Elsewhere: The Figuring of Ethnicity" in The Persistence of Craft ed Paul Greenhalgh, A&C Black, 2002
Downloadable .pdf - Compressed File (4.7MB)
Downloadable .pdf - Large File (13.2MB)

Review of 'Japanese Traditional Art Exhibition', Tokyo in Ceramic Review, Jan/Feb2002

Review of Porcelain Stories by Julie Emerson et al in Ceramic Review May/June 2001

Review of Chinese Glazes by Nigel Wood and Celadon Blues by Robert Tichane in Ceramic  Review, January/February 2000

"Homo Orientalis: Bernard Leach and the Japanese Soul" in Obscure Objects of Desire: Reviewing the Crafts in the 20th Century edited by Tanya Harrod, 1997.

"Scorched Earth" - [re: anagama firings] - Ceramic Review 172 July/Aug 1998

"The Lightness of Leach" - [re: skill as a graphic artist] - World of Interiors December, 1997

"Towards a Double Standard?" - [extract from Bernard Leach book] - Crafts Nov/Dec 1997

"What's in a pot?" - [re: BL and his influence on EdW] - The Guardian Weekend, November 29, 1997

"Homo Orientalis: Bernard Leach and the Image of the Japanese Craftsman" - Journal of Design History Vol. 10 No. 4, 1997.

Review of Isamu Noguchi - Essays and Conversations edited by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona and Bruce Altshuler in Ceramic Review 153 May/June, 1995

Review of "Japanese Studio Crafts: Tradition and the Avant-Garde" at V&A in Ceramic Review 154 July/Aug 1995