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{"authorDescription":"Edmund de Waal, with contributions from Emma Crichton-Miller, Colm Toíbín, Peter Carey, AS Byatt, Alexandra Munroe and Deborah Saunt","bookshot2d":null,"bookshot3d":null,"bookshot3dSquare":null,"categories":[],"date":"","editionId":13514,"guid":"b1457d05-0718-47b0-b835-f90904fdd699","images":[],"markets":{"AUD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"120.00","show":false},"CAD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"100.00","show":false},"EUR":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"79.95","show":false},"GBP":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"59.95","show":false},"TEST":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"0.00","show":false},"USD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"100.00","show":false}},"related":[],"sku":"9780714867038","source":"BOOKs","specifications":{"binding":"Hardback","colIlls":"250","extent":"284","language":"English","lenInch":"10 5/8","lenMm":"270","weightKilo":"1.2","widthInch":"8 1/4","widthMm":"210"},"status":false,"subtitle":" ","title":"Edmund de Waal","uri":"","webAuthorDescription":"Edmund de Waal (b.1964) is one of the world’s leading ceramic artists and a renowned historian of the medium. His work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums in the UK and Europe, and he will present exhibitions in 2013 at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He has written widely on art and ceramics, including books on Bernard Leach and 20th-century ceramics, and \u003cem\u003eThe Hare with Amber Eyes \u003c/em\u003e(2010) won the Costa Biography Award, New Writer of the Year at the Galaxy Book Awards, and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. In 2011 he was awarded an OBE for services to art.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nEmma Crichton-Miller, a journalist specializing in applied arts and crafts, contributes an in-depth biographical survey and critical analysis of de Waal and his work. She writes for the\u003cem\u003e Financial Times\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eRoyal Academy Magazine\u003c/em\u003e, among other publications.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nAlso includes contributions by novelists Colm Toíbín, Peter Carey and AS Byatt, and critical essays by Guggenheim curator Alexandra Munroe and architect Deborah Saunt.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n","webDescription":"","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"The first monograph on this internationally famous potter and writer, this book brings to life the man behind \u003cem\u003eThe Hare with Amber Eyes\u003c/em\u003e.\r\nStunning photography reveals a day in the life of de Waal and his\r\nstudio and documents his major exhibitions and installations.\r\nContributors include novelists Colm Toibín,\r\nPeter Carey and AS\r\nByatt.\r\n","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;This stunning monograph, the first collecting the work of artist and writer de Waal... Functions like a poem, measuring off de Waal's work from the world it lives in, and finding in that partitioning the boundless potential of a simple pot.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;This April sees the publication of a deluxe monograph on de Waal's work by Phaidon Press, which, in place of the usual impenetrable art speak, includes eloquent contributions by such writerly types as AS Byatt, Colm Toibin, and Peter Carey.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eDepartures\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Emma Crichton-Miller contributes a graceful, sympathetic biographical introduction, the clearest account of de Waal's career so far. The book is... in full accord with de Waal's own aesthetic: a beautiful piece of work in its own right, to be cherished.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eDavid Sexton, Evening Standard\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In words, and through Toby Glanville\u0026#8217;s fine photographic essay, Edmund de Waal presents an image of the artist as a uniquely gifted wunderkind.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eTLS - Tanya Harrod\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;This book evokes serenity.\u0026quot; \u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eTomas Maier, Esquire\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","webShortDescription":"The first monograph on this internationally acclaimed artist and writer.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n"}