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| Clarice Cliff: The Art of the Bizarre | 
 enlarge | Author: Leonard Griffin
Publisher: Pavilion Books
Category: Book
Buy New: $119.95
New (1) Used (8) Collectible (1) from $22.84
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1661243
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 0
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.6 x 1
ISBN: 1862052190
Dewey Decimal Number: 738.092
EAN: 9781862052192
ASIN: 1862052190
Publication Date: July 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: 1999 Hardcover in DJ 1st. BRAND NEW from publisher. last one. Never opened, Never owned, Never marked. Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve. very faint shelf marks, scratch back of glossy black & color cover; small closed tear bottom corner inside; not noticable inside new sleeve. Excellent Gift Giving quality. A big beautiful book, nearly 9x11" in size, weighing 2-1/2 pounds. Bright green boards with red title impressed on spine in matching red endpages. index, glossary & shape catalog + nearly 300 gorgeous glossy close-up color & B&W photos throughout, many specially commissioned, some taken by Clarice in the 1950s. Her life, work, achievements, artistic significance; all aspects of her life revealed, including celebrity in the 1930s, with previously unpublished material. All her major shapes & designs. Age of Jazz, Bizarre, Fantastique, Honolulu, Solitude, Arabesque, Davenport Ware, Xavier, Picasso Flower, teapots in Nautilus, Trieste
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| Customer Reviews:
My favourite Clarice Cliff book March 21, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Although this book is 6 years old it remains my favourite of all the Clarice Cliff books and there are now MANY available on her now. It tells Clarice's story thoroughly, with far more archive images than any other book, and great colour pictures of pieces from collectors from all over the world. The author interviewed nearly all the surviving paintresses who worked for her between 1927 and 1964 and this shows in the attention to detail about them, life in the 1930s and individual patterns they painted. There are many quotations from Clarice in the book and these give a "flavour" of her as a person. I'm prompted to write this review for newer collectors or Clarice fans who might be confused over the best book to start with, but in my opinion THIS is it, and at a very good price too. Barry
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