Listening to clay : conversations with contemporary Japanese ceramic artists
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Listening to clay : conversations with contemporary Japanese ceramic artists
Monacelli, c2022
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Includes index and glossaries
Artists: Hayashi Yasuo (林康夫), Mishima Kimiyo (三島喜美代), Morino Hiroaki (森野泰明), Kohyama Yasuhisa (神山易久), Miyshita Zenji (宮下善爾), Miwa Ryukisho (三輪龍気生), Koike Shoko (小池頌子), Ogawa Machiko (小川待子), Fukami Sueharu (深見陶治), Kakurezaki Ryuichi (隠﨑隆一), Miwa Kyusetsu XIII (十三代三輪休雪), Kaneta Masanao (兼田昌尚), Akiyama Yo (秋山陽), Yagi Akira (八木明), Kitamura Junko (北村純子), Kondo Takahiro (近藤高弘)
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The first book to tell the stories of the most revered living Japanese ceramists of the century in their own words, tracing the evolution of modern and contemporary craft and art in Japan, and the artists' considerable influence, which far transcends national borders.
This groundbreaking volume is the first to present conversations with the most important living Japanese ceramic artists of the last century, figures whose unparalleled skill and creative brilliance have lent them an influence that far transcends national borders. Despite forging illustrious careers and earning international recognition, these sixteen artists have customarily been subsumed by their work.
Ranging in age from sixty-two to ninety-two, they embody the diverse experiences of several generations who have been active and successful from the late 1940s to the present day, a period of massive change.
Now, sharing their stories for the first time, they not only describe their unique processes, inspirations, and relationships with clay, but together trace a seismic cultural shift through a field in which centuries-old but highly exclusionary potting traditions opened to new practitioners and kinds of practices; significantly, the book includes both conversations with artists born into pottery-making families, and the first women admitted to the Tokyo University of the Arts. In the process, Listening to Clay tells a larger story about ingenuity and trailblazing that has shaped contemporary art in Japan and around the world.
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