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Collecting Art Deco Ceramics by Howard Watson, Pat Watson

Collecting Art Deco Ceramics

By: Howard Watson, Pat Watson

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The starting point for this book lay in the upsurge of interest in Art Deco ceramics over the past ten years. During those years I have been a dealer myself, specialising in the pottery of the period between the two World Wars, and I suspect that one reason for this interest is that there are many parallels between that period and our own. The Eighties, like the Twenties and Thirties, was a time of superficial prosperity for many and extreme deprivation for some. A similar feverish gaiety has been engendered by the media, while in the background there has been the grim reality of the dole queue. Equally, it has been a time when uncertainty has marked the attitude of the majority of people towards questions of ethics and human relationships, a sense that the code of conduct officially endorsed is an anachronism in a selfish, self-seeking world. This underlying bleakness makes colour and warmth even more attractive. Unexpected shapes and clever combinations of line and pattern satisfy a need for interest and amusement.

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Weight 329 g
Dimensions 240 × 170 × 8 mm
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ISBN 9781870703352

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