Listening to Clay
Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2022
Summary
The first book to tell the stories of some of the most revered living Japanese ceramists of the century, tracing the evolution of modern and contemporary craft and art in Japan, and the artists’ considerable influence, which far transcends national borders.
Listening to Clay—Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists is the first book to present conversations with some of the most important living Japanese ceramic artists. Tracing the evolution of modern and con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580935920 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1580935923 |
| Author: | Alice North, Halsey North, Louise Cort, Monika Bincsik |
| Publisher: | Monacelli Press |
| Imprint: | Monacelli Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 1.58kg |
| Dimensions: | 40mm x 284mm x 217mm |
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“This lovingly assembled book is a unique document, archiving an extraordinarily generative period in one of the world’s great artistic traditions.” –Glenn Adamson
‘An engaging new book … [includes] lively, in depth interviews with 16 of the country’s most revered living ceramists.’ - Hyperallergic
About The Author
Alice North
Alice and Halsey North are pioneering collectors and advocates of contemporary Japanese ceramics. They produced and organized ceramic tours of Japan for the New York Japan Society. Their collection was featured in the exhibition Contemporary Clay- Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2005-6 and New York’s Japan Society 2006-7. A primary focus of their collecting and advocacy has been to introduce new audiences to this art form. They have donated the major portion of their collection to American museums, notably The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. The Met also houses the database, archives, and library for their collection.
Louise Allison Cort is Curator Emerita of Ceramics, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution. Her research interests are historical and contemporary ceramics in Japan, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. Her publications include Shigaraki, Potters’ Valley (1979, reprinted in 2000), Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics- A Close Embrace of the Earth (with Bert Winther-Tamaki, 2003), and Chigusa and the Art of Tea (with Andrew Watsky, 2014). In 2012, she received the Secretary’s Distinguished Scholar Award, Smithsonian Institution, and the Koyama Fujio Memorial Prize for research on historical and contemporary Japanese ceramics.
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