Crafting Beauty In Modern Japan

Author : Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295987332

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Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere Pdf

Japan has a long tradition of superb craft work in many media, including ceramics, textiles, laquerwork, metal, wood, glass, and bamboo. The worldwide appreciation and respect for Japanese crafts is embedded in Japanese social mores and culture. Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan presents some of the finest examples of art-craft created in Japan in the past fifty years, submitted to the Japan Art Craft Association annual exhibition, an open and competitive showcase inaugurated in 1954. A number of the artists included are considered "Living National Treasures," holders of special craft skills recognized by the Japanese government. While much of their work is traditional in form and function, it also reflects the needs of contemporary society through the improvement of techniques and the use of new materials. Fine porcelains with exquisite designs, fabulous kimonos, lacquer boxes with mother-of-pearl inlay, a hammered-silver vase, a box made from striped ebony wood, delicate dolls, and crystal glass are but a few of the exceptional pieces illustrated. Published to accompany an exhibition at the British Museum, this sumptuous book will appeal to artists and collectors of Japanese art and craft as well as to students of art, design, and fashion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : OCLC:1423052243

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Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christine Guth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520379817

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Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan by Christine Guth Pdf

"Crafts were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and how and from what materials they were made were matters of serious concern among all classes of society. In Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan, Christine M. E. Guth examines the network of forces--both material and immaterial--that supported Japan's rich, diverse, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Exploring the institutions, modes of thought, and reciprocal relationships among people, materials, and tools, she draws particular attention to the role of women in crafts, embodied knowledge, and the special place of lacquer as a medium. By examining the ways and values of making that transcend specific media and practices, Guth illuminates the 'craft culture' of early modern Japan"--

Author : Paul Kocot Nietupski,Joan O'Mara,Karil J. Kucera
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611460704

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Reading Asian Art and Artifacts by Paul Kocot Nietupski,Joan O'Mara,Karil J. Kucera Pdf

Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a "visible language" with messages that can be read, interpreted, and analyzed. These essays by scholars of Asian art, philosophy, anthropology, and religion focus on objects held in ASIANetwork schools. The chapters' authors tell the stories of the collections, and the collections themselves tell stories of the collectors.

Author : Meghen Jones,Louise Allison Cort
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429631993

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Ceramics and Modernity in Japan by Meghen Jones,Louise Allison Cort Pdf

Ceramics and Modernity in Japan offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and preservation of ceramics during Japan’s most dramatic period of modernization, the 1860s to 1960s. As in other parts of the world, ceramics in modern Japan developed along the three ontological trajectories of art, craft, and design. Yet, it is widely believed that no other modern nation was engaged with ceramics as much as Japan—a "potter’s paradise"—in terms of creation, exhibition, and discourse. This book explores how Japanese ceramics came to achieve such a status and why they were such significant forms of cultural production. Its medium-specific focus encourages examination of issues regarding materials and practices unique to ceramics, including their distinct role throughout Japanese cultural history. Going beyond descriptive historical treatments of ceramics as the products of individuals or particular styles, the closely intertwined chapters also probe the relationship between ceramics and modernity, including the ways in which ceramics in Japan were related to their counterparts in Asia and Europe. Featuring contributions by leading international specialists, this book will be useful to students and scholars of art history, design, and Japanese studies.

Author : Patricia Graham
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781462916092

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Japanese Design by Patricia Graham Pdf

**Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2015** This Japanese design book presents the arts, aesthetics and culture of Japan with over 160 stunning color photos and extensive historical and cultural commentary . The Japanese sensibility often possesses an intuitive, emotional appeal, whether it's a silk kimono, a carefully raked garden path, an architectural marvel, a teapot, or a contemporary work of art. This allure has come to permeate the entire culture of Japan—it is manifest in the most mundane utensil and snack food packaging, as well as in Japanese architecture and fine art. In Japanese Design, Asian art expert and author Patricia J. Graham explains how Japanese aesthetics based on fine craftsmanship and simplicity developed. Her unusual, full-color presentation reveals this design aesthetic in an absorbing way. Focusing on ten elements of Japanese design, Graham explores how visual qualities, the cultural parameters and the Japanese religious traditions of Buddhism and Shinto have impacted the appearance of its arts. Japanese Design is a handbook for the millions of us who have felt the special allure of Japanese art, culture and crafts. Art and design fans and professionals have been clamoring for this—a book that fills the need for an intelligent, culture-rich overview of what Japanese design is and means. Topics explored in Japanese Design include: The Aesthetics of Japanese Design The Cultural Parameters of Japanese Design Early Promoters of "Artistic Japan" 1830s-1950s

Author : Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175758

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Aesthetic Life by Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit Pdf

"This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the “beautiful woman” (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period (1868–1912). With origins in the formative period of modern Japanese art and aesthetics, the figure of the bijin appeared across a broad range of visual and textual media: photographs, illustrations, prints, and literary works, as well as fictional, critical, and journalistic writing. It eventually constituted a genre of painting called bijinga (paintings of beauties).Aesthetic Life examines the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art. As Japan worked to establish its place in the world, it actively presented itself as an artistic nation based on these ideals of feminine beauty. The book explores this exemplary figure for modern Japanese aesthetics and analyzes how the deceptively ordinary image of the beautiful Japanese woman—an iconic image that persists to this day—was cultivated as a “national treasure,” synonymous with Japanese culture."

Author : Terry Satsuki Milhaupt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781780233178

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Kimono by Terry Satsuki Milhaupt Pdf

What is the kimono? Everyday garment? Art object? Symbol of Japan? As this book shows, the kimono has served all of these roles, its meaning changing across time and with the perspective of the wearer or viewer. Kimono: A Modern History begins by exposing the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century foundations of the modern kimono fashion industry. It explores the crossover between ‘art’ and ‘fashion’ in this period at the hands of famous Japanese painters who worked with clothing pattern books and painted directly onto garments. With Japan’s exposure to Western fashion in the nineteenth century, and Westerners’ exposure to Japanese modes of dress and design, the kimono took on new associations and came to symbolize an exotic culture and an alluring female form. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the kimono industry was sustained through government support. The line between fashion and art became blurred as kimonos produced by famous designers were collected for their beauty and displayed in museums, rather than being worn as clothing. Today, the kimono has once again taken on new dimensions, as the Internet and social media proliferate images of the kimono as a versatile garment to be integrated into a range of individual styles. Kimono: A Modern History, the inspiration for a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,not only tells the story of a distinctive garment’s ever-changing functions and image, but provides a novel perspective on Japan’s modernization and encounter with the West.

Author : Eli Bartra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781498564342

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Feminism and Folk Art by Eli Bartra Pdf

This book uses a feminist approach to analyzing gender relations in the production and distribution of folk art in four different cultures. It examines examples of women’s creativity within male-dominated societies and offers an analysis of different art forms, including clay figures, baskets, lacquer work, and dolls.

Author : Muneyoshi Yanagi,Bernard Leach
Publisher : Kodansha International
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870119486

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The Unknown Craftsman by Muneyoshi Yanagi,Bernard Leach Pdf

Mr. Yanagi sees folk art as a manifestation of the essential world from which art, philosophy, and religion arise and in which the barriers between them disappear. The implications of the author's ideas are both far-reaching and practical.

Author : Trevor H. J. Marchand
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805394266

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The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work by Trevor H. J. Marchand Pdf

Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’. The animated and scholarly accounts of learning, achievement and challenges reveal the deep human desire to create with our hands, the persistent longing to find meaningful work, and the struggle to realise dreams. In its penetrating explorations of the nature of embodied skill, the book champions greater appreciation for the dexterity, ingenuity and intelligence that lie at the heart of craftwork.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133531082

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Arts of Asia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Akira Matsuda,Luisa Elena Mengoni
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781909188891

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Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia by Akira Matsuda,Luisa Elena Mengoni Pdf

The concept of ‘cultural heritage’ has acquired increasing currency in culture, politics and societies in East Asia. However, in spite of a number of research projects in this field, our understanding of how the past and its material expressions have been perceived, conceptualised and experienced in this part of the world, and how these views affect contemporary local practices and notions of identity, particularly in a period of rapid economic development and increasing globalisation, is still very unclear. Preoccupation with cultural heritage - expressed in the rapid growth of national and private museums, the expansion of the antiquities’ market, revitalisation of local traditions, focus on ‘intangible cultural heritage’ and the development of cultural tourism - is something that directly or indirectly affects national policies and international relations. An investigation of how the concept of ‘cultural heritage’ has been and continues to be constructed in East Asia, drawing on several case studies taken from China, Japan and Korea, is thus timely and worthwhile.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Book News Inc.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781605850870

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Art Book News Annual, volume 4: 2008Art Book News Annual, volume 4: 2008 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicholas Addison,Lesley Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415618878

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Debates in Art and Design Education by Nicholas Addison,Lesley Burgess Pdf

Debates in Art and Design Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in learning and teaching. It introduces key issues, concepts and tensions in order to help art educators develop a critical approach to their practice in response to the changing fields of education and visual culture. Accessible, comprehensive chapters are designed to stimulate thinking and understanding in relation to theory and practice, and help art educators to make informed judgements by arguing from a position based on theoretical knowledge and understanding. Contributing artists, lecturers and teachers debate a wide range of issues including: the latest policy and initiatives in secondary art education the concepts, skills and dispositions that can be developed through art education tensions inherent in developing the inclusive Art and Design classroom partnerships across the visual arts sector creativity in the Art and Design curriculum visual art and globalisation establishing the significance of 'Design' art practice as educational research. Debates in Art and Design Education is for all student and practising teachers interested in furthering their understanding of an exciting, ever-changing field, and supports art educators in articulating how the subject is a vital, engaging and necessary part of the twenty-first century curriculum. Each chapter points to further reading and each section suggests reflective questions to help shape art educators' teaching. In particular, Debates in Art and Design Education encourages art educators to engage in research by providing an essential introduction to critical thinking around contemporary debates.