I am very excited to announce that a wonderful, 5-year collaboration with Dr. Richard Jacobs has now reached fruition! Originally titled “Letters To a Young Potter”, the compilation of essays written to me by Dr. Jacobs has now been published by Kestrel Books (UK) as a scrumptious hard-cover with the new title, “Searching For Beauty.” This is a long-awaited treat, and I’m sure you will enjoy it, too! Below is an exerpt from the press release – please visit Kestrel Books’ website for full details at:
www.kestrel-books.co.uk/searching.shtm
In 2002, Christa Assad, now special instructor in the KCAI ceramics department, sold one of her works to California ceramics collector Richard Jacobs. This sale set Richard down a path that ultimately ended with the book “Searching for Beauty: Letters from a Collector to a Studio Potter.” The book was released last week by publishers Kestrel Books of the United Kingdom, and the book’s creation was described on the publisher’s Web site: “For whatever reasons, this single act, just one among many by a distinguished professor, educationist and ceramics collector, kindled a desire to set down in print the innumerable thoughts and questions of a tirelessly inquisitive and often heretical spirit. Taking his inspiration from Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet,’ Richard Jacobs sets the tone of his letters to Christa Assad with his favorite quote from that classic work, ‘Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language … At present you need to live the question.”
Richard Jacobs
‘Searching for Beauty’
Letters from a Collector to a Studio Potter
Hardcover, 352 pages
ISBN 0-9548840-6-X
Available from 23rd October 2007
Retail price in UK £25.
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