Edmund de Waal

by Edmund de Waal, Emma Crichton-Miller, Toby Glanville (Photographer)

The first monograph on this internationally famous potter and writer, this book brings to life the man behind The Hare with Amber Eyes . Stunning photography reveals a day in the life of de Waal and his studio and documents his major exhibitions and installations. Contributors include novelists Colm Toibín, Peter Carey and AS Byatt.

Genres: Art

284 pages, Hardcover

First published April 21, 2014

About the author

Edmund de Waal describes himself as a 'potter who writes'. His porcelain has been displayed in many museum collections around the world and he has recently made a huge installation for the dome of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Edmund was apprenticed as a potter, studied in Japan, and read English Literature at Cambridge University. 'The Hare with Amber Eyes', a journey through the history of a family in objects, is his most personal book.

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Reviews

[Kerstin · Rating 5 out of 5]

De Waal’s writing on his own work resonates the most.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not quite as enchanting as the Hare with the Amber Eyes. Divided into four parts; he says at the outset that he wants to visit three places where porcelain originated (China, Dresden, and England). There are parts where it gets a bit boggy, and it's not until I stepped back a bit that I could appreciate how all the pieces fit together. Like his previous book, this one conveys a similarly vivid sense of the tactile pleasures of the arts. Along the way, he ruminates on division of labor, efforts to standardize and categorize porcelain from the earliest days. In the fourth and final part of the book, he shows how commoditization and industrialization have made the mass-production of porcelain wares a toil of drudgery.