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- 23 x 30.5 cm
- 176 pages
- Approximately 50 illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9155-4212-7
- Text in French only
When the exceptional collection of contemporary ceramics that he created entered the Adrien-Dubouché museum in Limoges, Maurice Lambiotte was questioning the passion for stoneware that had accompanied his life. At a time when collecting is, for many, the affirmation of social status, he allows us to rediscover an intimate relationship with the object, which is what gives great collections their sensitivity. Establishing a parallel between his profession as a researcher and the work of the potter, Lambiotte questions the mystery of creation. Documenting the genesis of the pieces he chose and often saw born is the most beautiful autobiography that a loving amateur can write. In his preface, Robert Deblander, a remarkable pottery artist, underlines the importance of this collection which includes more than 300 pieces: stoneware, rakus, enamels and cecidons. In the second part of the work, the art historian Carole Andréani presents the biographies of sixteen ceramists, such as Astoul, Champy, Joulia, or Seung-Ho Yang, with whom Maurice Lambiotte has corresponded since the early 1960s.