Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Homevision
• VHS Release Date: December 21, 2004
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00065GVHU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #508,429 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The journey of an artist and the understated courage of a woman molded by a lifetime of obstacles overcome and barriers broken. In this intimate documentary, filmmaker Karen Carter focuses her perceptive eye on 83-year old working ceramist Ruth Duckworth. A study in contrasts, Duckworth’ s ostensibly simplistic philosophy, "Work comes from play," belies the complexity of her vision, from her ceramic sculpture to her extraordinary mural work. Calling herself a survivor, Ruth fled Hitler’s Germany, studied at the Liverpool School of Art in England, and taught sculpture at the University of Chicago. As Carter’s conversational portrait reveals, Ruth did more than survive; she became a pioneering artist, enriching the form of nurturing our collective wonderment through A Life in Clay. Celebrated as one of our nation’ s leading ceramists, Duckworth is recognized for her creative influence on the art of ceramics, her work gracing museums and private collections around the world. Producer/Director, Karen Carter is the winner of the 1998 Roy Dean Film Grant and numerous other industry awards. In addition to the documentaries Brave Girls and Ask Not: People Who Make a Difference, she produced and directed the shorts series, Me In A Box, for the Nickelodeon Network.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exhibit review, December 22, 2006

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Kay A. Bannister (Everett, Washington United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ruth Duckworth: A Life in Clay [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I saw this video at the Renwick Museum in Washington DC in October. It is excellent, of interest as a biography and as an introduction to a novice (myself) about these extraordinary clay objects. The exhibit itself was outstanding and I hope it is appearing other places so many people can visit.