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Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth, 2003
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- Condition
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- Seller Notes
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- ISBN
- 9780520239234
- Book Title
- Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics : a Close Embrace Of the Earth
- Item Length
- 11.3in
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Art, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Sculpture & Installation, Marketing / General, Asian / General, Ceramics, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
- Item Width
- 9.2in
- Item Weight
- 50.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) is renowned for his stone and bronze sculpture, his gardenlike installations in public spaces, and his furniture designs. Far less familiar, but no less important, is Noguchi's work in clay, which he executed in three intensive sessions in 1931, 1950, and 1952, all during visits to Japan. The pieces included in this elegant volume and the accompanying exhibition comprise the first major museum presentation of Isamu Noguchi's ceramics and the introduction of the work of major postwar Japanese ceramic artists with whom Noguchi collaborated or interacted. Supported by four linked essays and opulently illustrated in full color and black and white, Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics highlights the sculptor's struggles with cultural identity and his experimentation with the conflicts between modernity and tradition. Noguchi's sculptures in the medium of clay reveal informal, spontaneous, and humorous aspects not visible in less flexible media such as bronze or stone. Through clay, Noguchi probed unresolved personal issues surrounding his ambiguous cultural identity as the son of a Japanese father and American mother. Because Noguchi made his ceramics in Japan, his work also creates links to a diversity of approaches within the ceramic world of Japan. These range from traditionalists such as Kitaoji Rosanjin and the Living National Treasure designates, to primitivists exemplified by Okamoto Taro and Tsuji Shindo, to avant-garde experimentalists led by the Sodeisha group. An understanding of the nature and scope of the concerns Noguchi expressed through clay is crucial to understanding his work as a whole, and consideration of Japanese ceramic artists in the 1950s reveals a largely unknown genre of modern Japanese art. Copublished with the Smithsonian Institution
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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520239237
ISBN-13
9780520239234
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2296451
Product Key Features
Book Title
Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics : a Close Embrace Of the Earth
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sculpture & Installation, Marketing / General, Asian / General, Ceramics, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Art, Business & Economics
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
9.2in
Item Weight
50.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nk4210.N555a4 2003
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-015627
Illustrated
Yes
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