Malcolm Schosha on fri 26 sep 03
Tony,
I have no douby that Casson is a wonderful person. Truthfully, most
of the potters I have met are really great people. But that does not
necessarily mean they are also great potters. I suppose you would be
more pleasant to deal with too if you did not feel I was challenging
the validity of your work. From your point of view any amount of
unpleasantness directed at me (a person you do not like)is justified
if it is to defend the people and things you do like. Such is life.
As to the Italian thrower who worked for you, I never said that
Italian production throwers are artists. Most of them are people like
Isaac Button, that is hard working artisens. The ones I knew mostly
started work at around the age of twelve, and worked sixteen hour
days the rest of their lives. However, there are many that can do ALL
the work with producing pottery. A few are also good artists.
You say that the stuff this thrower learned to make in Italy is
hidious. This could be true. I am sure he thought your stuff was real
junk too. Two viewpoints.
I will not bother to respond to the rest of your message as it just
an atteck on me based on nothing particular; but intended to protect
the validity of your work from what you see as a potential threat. I
knew very well what would happen when I rattled the cage.
Malcolm
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--- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, clennell wrote:
> Sour Cherry Pottery
>
> >> Of course Casson would not have wanted to throw in Italy, with
its
> >> still continuing classical tradition. To me his stuff is a sort
of
> >> bad quality farce.....
>
> Malcolm: I had the pleasure of working with the Cassons for a
summer some 20
> years ago. They are wonderful people and fabulous potter/educators.
> Mick reverred folk potters the world over. He is a studio potter
and that he
> would not fit into a production setting is indeed true.
> I had an Italian thrower work for me several years ago. He is an
itinerent
> thrower that travels all over -throwing. He is an unbelievable
thrower if
> you give him your forms to throw. If you let him make the stuff he
learned
> in Italy it is hideous. He was however just that- a thrower. he
knows
> nothing of firing, glazes, form, design, etc. To compare throwers
with
> potters is to compare apples to oranges.
> I know nothing of your work but if you claim to have better pots
behind you
> than Mick, Leach and hamada then I have this feeling you're like
the guy in
> high school that said he had all the girls, won the most fights,
drank the
> most beer and no one called him on it. So I'm calling on you.
Where do I
> see your work? You can shit the fans, but you can't shit the
players.
> Cheers,
> Tony
> Sour Cherry Pottery
> London, Paris, New York, Beamsville
>
>
> Tony and Sheila Clennell
> Sour Cherry Pottery
> 4545 King Street
> Beamsville, Ontario
> CANADA L0R 1B1
> http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
>
> clennell@v...
>
>
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