Modern Japanese Ceramics Book

Modern japanese ceramics in american collections 9780913304389.

Modern japanese ceramics book.

For that alone it may be worth purchasing this book. Organised geographically devotees of ceramics can use this guide. Contemporary japanese ceramics book. First the good this book contains lots of beautiful pictures of japanese pottery from the 1990 s and early 21st century.

I wonder did i just pay 40 for an ad for this gallery. The works range from painstakingly crafted porcelains inspired by chinese prototypes to rough hewn vessels that revel in the happy accidents of wood fired kilns. Read reviews from world s largest community for readers. Featuring over 50 examples made by more than 35 artists during the last two decades contemporary clay offers an overview of everything that is most innovative creative and iconoclastic in the world of modern day japanese ceramics.

There is a website that goes with the book and many of the pots in the book are for sale there. Excellent summary of contemporary japanese ceramics with marvelous pictures that fire the imagination. It s a picture book. No doubt the authors are serious about their love of modern japanese ceramics.

This is not a book i would like my serious potter friends to catch me reading. Now the not so good if you are expecting to see cutting edge modern ceramics from japan this is not the book for you.