Alan Caiger-Smith
Alan Caiger-Smith
Life and work
Caiger-Smith was born in
According to Grove Art, Alan Caiger-Smith established the Aldermaston Pottery in 1955, "a cooperative workshop of about seven potters making functional domestic ware and tiles, as well as individual commissions and one-off pots. By trial and error he revived and perfected two virtually lost techniques: the use of tin glaze and painted pigments on red earthenware clay, and the firing of lustres on to tin glazes."[3] However, "virtually lost" is questionable: in his Lustre Pottery, Caiger-Smith himself covers relatively recent revivals of lustreware by William De Morgan, Vilmos Zsolnay, Clément Massier and Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery.[4] In particular his researches "reconstructed the medieval Islamic lustreware technique".[5]
He was joined at Aldermaston Pottery by a number of other potters, including Geoffrey Eastop (1921–2014).[6]
Alan Caiger-Smith's book on Tin-Glaze Pottery (1973) covers its history and much of its technique.[7] He co-translated and annotated with R.W. Lightbown a detailed contemporary description of the materials and methods of Renaissance maiolica, Cipriano Piccolpasso's I Tre Libre Dell'Arte Del Vasaio (The Three Books of the Potter’s Art) (1980). His history of lustre ware, Lustre Pottery, was published in 1985.
Caiger-Smith was Chairman of the British Crafts Centre (1973–1978) and was awarded the
Bibliography
- Caiger-Smith, Alan, Tin-Glaze Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World: The Tradition of 1000 Years in Maiolica, Faience and Delftware (ISBN 0-571-09349-3.
- Caiger-Smith, Alan, Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World(Faber and Faber, 1985). ISBN 0-571-13507-2.
- Caiger-Smith, Alan, Pottery, People and Time: A Workshop in Action (Shepton Beauchamp: Richard Dennis, 1995). ISBN 0-903685-39-6.
- Piccolpasso, Cipriano, The Three Books of the Potter's Art (I Tre Libri del Arte Vasaiao) (trans. A. Caiger-Smith and R. Lightbown) (Scolar Press, 1980). ISBN 0-85967-452-5.
- Caiger-Smith, Alan, Said el Sadr 1909-1986. Potter, Painter, Sculptor, Teacher. (ACS Shalford Publications, 2010). ISBN 0956416608
- Caiger-Smith, Alan, Times and Seasons (I Tempi e le Stagioni) (Published 2012 in English and Italian). ISBN 9788897738244
- Caiger-Smith, Alan, English Medieval Mural Paintings (Oxford University Press, 1963).
- Wettlaufer, George and Nancy Wettlaufer. “England’s Alan Caiger-Smith.” 'Ceramics Monthly' 28, no. 1 (January 1980).
- White Jane, Alan Caiger-Smith and the Legacy of Aldermaston Pottery', Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2018 EAN 9781910807255
See also
- Tin-glazed pottery
- Primavera Gallery in Cambridge
- Reading Museum has a large collection of Caiger-Smith's pottery[9]
References
- ^ "Alan CAIGER-SMITH". Newbury Today. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ ISBN 9780714829487.
- ^ Niblett, Kathy. "Caiger-Smith, Alan". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online.
- ^ Caiger-Smith, Alan (1989). Lustre Pottery. London: Faber & Faber.
- ISBN 071411782X: Sheila Canby, p. 111 (quoted), Emmanuel Cooper, p. 208
- ^ "Geoffrey Eastop: An artist's life in pots". Newbury Weekly News. Newbury, Berkshire. 15 January 2015. pp. 44–45.
- ISBN 0571093493.
- ^ "[title missing]". Ceramic Review (221 (September/October)): 17. 2006.
- ^ "Atrium". 27 March 2017.
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