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We carry a large selection of current and out of print specialist books on studio ceramics.
You will find a number online here, but please do get in contact with other enquiries and we may be able to help you source certain publications and journals.
Contact us by email info@maaklondon.com or telephone our office on 01628 290050. Postage is calculated for each order once we know the dispatch address, payment over the phone.
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'The Pottery of John Ward' by Emma Crichton-Miller
John Ward (b.1938) has a longstanding reputation as one of Britain's foremost potters, and yet very little has been written about his manifold achievements. Authoritative and enlightening, this will be the first account of Ward’s life and work, tracing the evolution of his ideas and his practice as a potter and placing them critically within the history of British Studio Pottery.
Published by Lund Humphries, 2022
Hardback, 128 pages, includes 90 colour illustrations, 26x22cm ISBN: 9781848225060
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'Julian Stair: Memory, Material, Ceramics' by Ashley Thorpe
The first comprehensive account of the pioneering ceramic work of Julian Stair, one of the UK’s leading ceramic artists, with a prolific career spanning five decades. Exploring an extensive range of work in different materials and scales, this book uncovers Stair’s role as a key player in the development of studio ceramics.
Foreword by Jago Cooper
Preface by Alun Graves
Published by Yale University Press, 2024
Hardcover 288 Pages, 225 × 279 mm, 250 colour illus.
ISBN: 9780300278071
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'Making Emmanuel Cooper' by David Horbury
Potter, writer, teacher, editor, curator and gay rights activist, Emmanuel Cooper was a unique figure in the cultural landscape of this country for almost half a century. When he died in 2012 he left behind not only an extraordinary body of work, but also an archive that illuminated both his own life and career and that of the many other makers, artists and activists who had been his friends, colleagues or the subject of his writing.
Life and Work from his Memoirs, Letters, Diaries and Interviews
Hardback, 336 pages, size 234mm x 156mm
ISBN: 9781912690411
Published by Unicorn, 2019
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'Contemporary British Studio Ceramics' by Annie Carlano
In Britain today the output of excellent ceramics seems more eclectic than elsewhere. This stylish and wide-ranging survey comprises examples of clay art by one hundred major artists, covering the period from the late 1980s through 2009.
Published by Yale University Press, 2010
Hardback, 176 pages
ISBN: 9780300167191
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'Studio Ceramics' by Alun Graves
In his introductory essay, Alun Graves, Senior Curator of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, provides all lovers of ceramics – collectors, practitioners, historians and those interested in modern and contemporary art and crafts – with the historical context, documenting this shift in the medium into an expressive, and sometimes interventionist, art form.
Shortlisted for the 2024 Berger Prize.
'Studio Ceramics: British Studio Pottery 1900 to Now at the V&A'
Foreward by Tanya Harrod
Published by Thames & Hudson and V&A, 2023
Hardback, 416 pages, 28cm x 23cm
ISBN:9780500480892
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Hans Coper 100
Hans Coper 100
Introduction by David Whiting
Exhibition catalogue, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
40 pages, illustrations throughout Published 2020
To mark the 100th anniversary of Hans Coper’s birth, the Ashmolean devoted a display to an exhibition of Coper’s ceramics made across his career. The exhibition included ceramics from the Museum’s own collection together with more than 30 loans from private collections.
ISBN: ISBN 98 1 910807 42 2
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John Ward by E Crichton-Miller
Published by Lund Humphries, 2022
Hardback, 128 pages, includes 90 colour illustrations, 26x22cm ISBN: 9781848225060
£_ _
'Julian Stair - Memory, Material & Ceramics' by Ashley Thorpe
Foreword by Jago Cooper
Preface by Alun Graves
Published by Yale University Press, 2024
Hardback 288 Pages, 27 x 22cm, over 250 colour illustrations
ISBN: 9780300278071
£ _ _
Making Emmanuel Cooper by David Horbury
Published by Unicorn, 2019
Hardback, 336 pages, size 234mm x 156mm
ISBN: 9781912690411
£ _ _
'Contemporary British Studio Ceramics' by Annie Carlano
Published by Yale University Press, 2010
Hardback, 176 pages
ISBN: 9780300167191
£ _ _
'Studio Ceramics' by Alun Graves
'Studio Ceramics: British Studio Pottery 1900 to Now at the V&A' by Alun Graves
Foreward by Tanya Harrod
Published by Thames & Hudson and V&A, 2023
Hardback, 416 pages, 28cm x 23cm
ISBN:9780500480892
£ _ _
Hans Coper 100
Hans Coper 100
Introduction by David Whiting
Exhibition catalogue, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
40 pages, illustrations throughout Published 2020
ISBN: ISBN 978 1 910807 42 2
£ _ _