ADDRESS BY MR LEACH
“Artists Must Be World Citizens”
Poets, painters and writers had to become world citizens and could no longer be nationalistic. Mr Bernard Leach, the famous potter, told 200 members of the Association of Friends of the Canterbury Museum and members of the Christchurch branch of the Japan Society last evening. “There has to be a marriage of East and West.” Mr Leach said.
He said that in Western civilisation, man was a product of the industrial revolution and few were able to have work which demanded ♦heir whole faculties Therefore. most nersons were frustrated. “We have learned to snlit man as well as the atom.” Mr Leach said. A major criticism of lananese workmanshin was ‘hat it was conied. said Mr Leach, but the architecture of many Western houses had been influenced bv Japanese archi‘ectur“ and many modern Western paintings could not have been painted without the influence of Japanese art on the impresci ah i of c
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29749, 16 February 1962, Page 11
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