Lee Love on fri 1 feb 02
Comment @ Black Mountain College in 1952
I disagree with Leach on this. America has many "taprootlets." This
availablity of culture, (to most modern educated people) makes the creator's
descretion very important to the process. Self limitation (focus) has to be
brought to bear. I'll try to write more about this later.
Probably not what you were looking for, but it relates:
Craft and the
Creative Process
"Open Letter to Bernard Leach" from Marguerite Wildenhain
MARGUERITE WILDENHAIN (1896-1985), "Open Letter to Bernard Leach," 1953 (4 p.).
Wildenhain rejected Leach's idea that a country has one "taproot" of tradition.
She argued for a more pluralistic approach: America cannot have just one
expression, it forcibly must have as many forms of expression as total life
has....if you want the crafts to remain alive and perhaps even to grow roots
again in our civilization, give them freedom, education, and good creative
experimenting.
Marguerite Wildenhain "
See the actual letter here at he Smithsonian
http://artarchives.si.edu/exhibits/craft/craftpage19.htm
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"The best pots for me are the pots that I like." --Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)
http://www.awanomachi-tcg.ed.jp/mashiko.html
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