Clarice Cliff
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (627 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0747578281 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Clarice Cliff's tastes were magpie and eclectic: the latest European styles, ancient colourings and cottage-garden flowers were given a domestic context. When she started work in the Potteries before the First World War, she was just another factory girl with a rolled-up pinny in her pocket and nothing much expected of her future. 'Bizarre' was different at a time women hoped their lives could be different too. As a working-class woman, Clarice Cliff's journey from apprentice gilder to art director was remarkable. The resulting look was bold, innovative and all the rage. Fusing art, design and industry, social history and biographical detail, it is a vibrant study of an Art Deco icon whose work continues to arouse strong and conflicting passions.. In her insightful and engrossing biography of this talented, ground-breaking woman, Lynn Knight also draws a vivid portrait of Britain between the wars, and in particular of the lives of women. From the first, Clarice Cliff refused limitations. Women responded to the modern spirit
Large than life Henry Stonehall Author Lynn Knight tells us about the woman who started out as a factory girl then became one of Britain's most distinctive designers.Her brightly coloured designs are instantly recognisable and it's this that makes Clarice Cliff one of the most influential ceramic designers of the last hundred years. She was a woman who rose from being an apprentice gilder in the potteries to a posit. "Clarice was a Woman!" according to whispering hawk. A sterling biography of a great ceramic designer. Knight focuses often on Cliff's social milieu and relates its importance to her unfolding as a woman and a great original. On the personal side we get tantalizing glimpses of Cliff's secretive affair with married Mr Shorter, her boss, while on the practical side learn important aspects of the skilled labour involved in pottery making a
She is the editor of Dangerous Calm: The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Taylor. . Lynn Knight is a writer, editor and lecturer
'A thoughtful and fascinating biography, packed with fabulous pictures' Image 'Knight deftly uses Cliff's life and work as a way to view broader currents in Britain: increased social mobility, greater (though still limited) independence for women, and changes in domesticity towards smaller houses and fewer servants. At the centre is Cliff herself, a woman who inspired admiration as well as snobbish opprobrium for her vivid designs and ambitiousness' Financial Times 'Knight's evocative life of Clarice Cliff is both biography and social analysis and it reads like a very sophisticated folk tale She has done wonders in building up a picture of a woman of exceptional self-reliance an