Pottery made by an individual artist potter, from clay to glaze to firing, rather than by a factory. The movement took its modern shape around Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada's workshop at St Ives and Leach's A Potter's Book, and it made the potter's mark and the maker's hand central to ceramics. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Origin YearWikipedia's own studio pottery article places the movement's emergence broadly in the early 20th century through several converging influences (art pottery, the Arts and Crafts movement, the Bauhaus, and the rediscovery of Song pottery), naming no single founding year. 1920, the founding of the Leach Pottery, already recorded on this atlas as the movement's own wellspring, is used here as the conventional single-year marker rather than a precise date of origin. OriginA twentieth-century movement, shaped decisively by the Leach Pottery from 1920 and A Potter's Book of 1940 1 FAQs
How did studio pottery take its modern shape?
Around Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada's workshop at St Ives and Leach's A Potter's Book.
Studio pottery, pottery made by an individual artist potter from clay to glaze to firing rather than by a factory, took its modern shape around Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada's workshop at St Ives, founded in 1920, and Leach's A Potter's Book, published in 1940. The movement made the potter's mark and the maker's hand central to ceramics, distinct from studio craft's broader focus on furniture, glass, textiles and metalwork.
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1. Studio Pottery (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation1900-1960 Development of contemporary British ceramics section
Originally trained as a fine artist, Bernard Leach (1887-1979) established a style of pottery, the ethical pot, strongly influenced by Chinese, Korean, Japanese and medieval English forms.
Introduction section
Studio pottery is pottery made by professional and amateur ceramists working alone or in small groups, making unique items or short runs, especially those that are not intended for daily use as crockery.
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Several influences contributed to the emergence of studio pottery in the early 20th century: art pottery, the Arts and Crafts movement, the Bauhaus, a rediscovery of traditional artisan pottery and the excavation of large quantities of Song pottery in China.
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