Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists by North, Alice
Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists by North, Alice

Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists

The first book to tell the stories of the most revered living Japanese ceramists of the century...
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Author: Alice North
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Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists by North, Alice

Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists

€91,61
Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists by North, Alice

Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists

€91,61
Author: Alice North
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

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.



Author: Alice North, Halsey North, Louise Cort
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.40lbs
Size: 10.94h x 8.43w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9781580935920

About the Author
Alice and Halsey North are leading collectors and patrons of contemporary Japanese ceramics. Since 1994, they have worked with curators from the National Museum of Asian Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the MFA Boston to research, document, and contextualize their collection. Their collection was featured in Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century at the MFA 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 ceramics from their collection to numerous museums, notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 Chigasu and the Art of Tea (with Andrea Watsky, 2014). In 2012, she received the Secretary's Distinguished Scholar Award, Smithsonian Institution, and the Koyama Fujio Memorial Price for research on historical and contemporary Japanese ceramics.



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