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

Tanya Harrod

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#1182 of 3,809 books · #427 in Biography & Memoir

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (2012).

British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. After graduating from Oxford in 1923, he made majestic slipware alongside legendary potter Bernard Leach.

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Studio pottery and ceramicsColonialismCounterculture and modernism

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