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Hans Coper
Primary Type of Art: Ceramics
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Description
Hans Coper was an influential modernist ceramist. Originally born in Germany, Coper migrated to England in 1939. Coper's work was of a 'continental' sensibility - it had little or nothing to do with Leach's 'Sung Standard'. Coper was concerned less with the revival of Chinese or Korean rural expression, but rather with - as he wrote - "extracting essence" from pottery. This may be interpreted as a desire to make conceptual work, albeit still based on the vessel, rather than functional pottery. Thus we find strong sculptural elements in his work.