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Download or read book Jun Kaneko written by Glen R. Brown and published by Scheidegger and Spiess. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jun Kaneko, revered for his role in establishing modern ceramic art, has been equally prolific in a range of other media. Tracing the career of this dynamic Japanese-American artist from his early training and association with the pivotal California Clay Movement to his important public commissions and philanthropic concerns of the present, this book constitutes a detailed survey and analysis of nearly six decades of ceramics, drawing, painting, installation art, and opera design. With a particular emphasis on the most recent twenty years, and relying primarily on first-person interviews conducted with the artist since 2002, this richly illustrated monograph reflects on the principal concepts that have shaped Kaneko's art, situating them in the space between a Japanese Shinto-Buddhist ethos and the aesthetic tenets of Western Tachism and Abstract Expressionism.
Download or read book Shinganist written by Usugrow and published by Shingan Art Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shinganist." The word is a blending of Japanese ("shingan," or "the mind's eye") and English, itself a reflection of the blending of the influence of the Western world and the Eastern heritage of the five artists included in the catalog for Shinganist, the art show that has traveled the world from San Francisco to London to Tokyo. The Japanese artists featuredUsugrow, Mozyskey, Toshikazu Nozaka, Bene, and Jun Kanekoencourage people to see also with the mind's eye as they take in the gorgeous images contained within this book. Curated by Usugrow, the book's emphasis is artwork that embraces a modern, borderless global society and reveals a thirst for intellectual and philosophical inquiry. The drawings, paintings, and photographs are tinged with punk rock and hip-hop attitude, and bear the marks of skateboard, graffiti, and tattoo culture from America and Europe mingled with the rhythm of everyday life in Japan.
Download or read book Plunder written by Cynthia Saltzman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers’ space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.
Download or read book Jun Kaneko written by Susan Peterson and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth survey of a Japanese artist whose work has created a new and radical language in ceramics. Born in Nagoya, Japan, but living and working in the U.S. since the early sixties, Jun Kaneko has achieved international renown through his exhibitions, public arts projects, lectures and workshops. He is best know for his "dangos, " large-scale painted forms whose richly glazed surfaces communicate a humanity that belies their huge size. Susan Peterson's thoroughly researched yet highly readable text traces Kaneko's artistic development, examining key moments in his life and interspersing them with previously unpublished statements from the artists and his contemporaries. The text is accompanied by stunning illustrations of his work at the various stages of his career, providing a complete overview of his prodigious oeuvre.
Book Synopsis Magic Flute Jun Kaneko 2nd Edition by : Jun Kaneko
Download or read book Magic Flute Jun Kaneko 2nd Edition written by Jun Kaneko and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is the same as the first edition but with many additional photos from the San Francisco Opera's production as well as additional essays.
Book Synopsis Working with Clay by : Susan Peterson
Download or read book Working with Clay written by Susan Peterson and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mastering Raku written by Steven Branfman and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers such topics as the history and philosophy of raku, types of clay, forming techniques, firing, glazes and decoration. Types of kilns and kiln construction are also fully explained and the book includes a gallery of works from around the world along with updated clay and glaze recipes.
Book Synopsis Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery by : Karen O. Janovy
Download or read book Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery written by Karen O. Janovy and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All of the 90 pieces selected from more than 350 works in the collection are presented here in full color, each accompanied by a brief discussion of the artist and his or her work by leading scholars in the field as well as authorities on the collection. The essays examine the works of sculptors represented in the Sheldon's collection, including Barlach, Brancusi, Calder, Duchamp, Moore, and Rodin, and present a concise yet comprehensive overview of pertinent scholarship that will be of value to both students and experts in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Ceramics by : Susan Peterson
Download or read book Contemporary Ceramics written by Susan Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented survey of the most outstanding ceramics being created today offers a sweeping close-up look at the work of more than 260 artists from more than thirty countries. A special feature of this collection is the range of work from China, almost unknown outside of this country until now. Organized by the distinctive categories of functional ceramics, figurative pieces, and installation works, the book gives a complete picture of the latest developments in each area of contemporary ceramic art. Chapters on materials, firing techniques, ethnic influences in design, and related topics delve into every aspect of ceramics creation that would be of interest to crafters, collectors, and other readers who are drawn to contemporary art. Stimulating essays by the author tie together the wide range of work shown in superbly detailed color photographs. Artists included: John Mason, Jun Kaneko, Peter Voulkos, Ralph Bacerra, Rudy Autio, Ken Price, Peter Lane "The book is lavishly illustrated and delights the eyes with the exuberance and variety of ceramic art in the 20th century."--"Mills Quarterly," Spring 2001
Download or read book Jun Kaneko written by Jun Kaneko and published by . This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis KPMG Peat Marwick Collection of American Craft by : Renwick Gallery
Download or read book KPMG Peat Marwick Collection of American Craft written by Renwick Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels by : Tina Oldknow
Download or read book Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels written by Tina Oldknow and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the vast collection of contemporary glass sculpture and stunning panels in this renowned Museum's collection.
Book Synopsis A Theory of Craft by : Howard Risatti
Download or read book A Theory of Craft written by Howard Risatti and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade ceramics, glass, metalwork, weaving, and furniture to painting, sculpture, photography, and machine-made design from Bauhaus to the Memphis Group. He describes craft's unique qualities as functionality combined with an ability to express human values that transcend temporal, spatial, and social boundaries. Modern design today has taken over from craft the making of functional objects of daily use by employing machines to do work once done by hand. Understanding the aesthetic and social implications of this transformation forces us to see craft as well as design and fine art in a new perspective, Risatti argues. Without a way of understanding and valuing craft on its own terms, the field languishes aesthetically, being judged by fine art criteria that automatically deny art status to craft objects. Craft must articulate a role for itself in contemporary society, says Risatti; otherwise it will be absorbed by fine art or design and its singular approach to understanding the world will be lost. A Theory of Craft is a signal contribution to establishing a craft theory that recognizes, defines, and celebrates the unique blend of function and human aesthetic values embodied in the craft object.
Download or read book Global Asias written by Carolyn Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Global Asias examines the cosmopolitan and the mundane, the exuberant and the somber, and the subtly subversive and enigmatic characteristics of contemporary Asian and Asian American art. Though the artists featured in the exhibition share a common Asian heritage, their backgrounds and styles differ vastly, and each artist draws on an array of motifs, techniques, and cultural motivations to construct diverse "Asias" in a modern global context. The fifteen artists represented here were born in Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Argentina, or the United States; all are adept at crossing borders-not only physical ones but also those in media, styles, genre, and materiality. The full recognition of works by Asian and Asian American artists, this exhibition suggests, rewrites the history of modern art as well as the history of American art, both of which turn out to be more vibrant and colorful than we knew, once we embrace such inclusivity.
Download or read book Paper Pools written by David Hockney and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1980 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paper Pools is the most recent major group of works by David Hockney, demonstrating his fascination with new techniques in the service of his passionate pursuit of creative representation. In 1976, Hockney had become obsessed with the technique of coloured etching, which he had been taught by the French print-maker Aldo Crommelynck and which resulted in the Blue Guitar series, among other inventive works. Now Hockney has applied himself with infectious enthusiasm to the making of Paper Pools, in which painting and paper-making are totally fused." --preface.
Book Synopsis The Craft and Art of Clay by : Susan Peterson
Download or read book The Craft and Art of Clay written by Susan Peterson and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely considered to be the most comprehensive introduction to ceramics available, this book contains numerous step-by-step illustrations of various ceramic techniques to guide the beginner as well as inspirational ceramic pieces from contemporary potters from around the world. For the more experienced ceramist, there is a wealth of technical detail on things like glaze formulas and temperature conversions which make the book an ideal reference. To quote one review: ...I am a studio potter and would not be without it. The fourth edition has been updated to include profiles of key ceramists who have influenced the field, new material on marketing ceramics including using the internet, more on the use of computers, added coverage of paperclays, using gold and alternative glazes.
Book Synopsis Lucy M. Lewis, American Indian Potter by : Susan Peterson
Download or read book Lucy M. Lewis, American Indian Potter written by Susan Peterson and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 2004 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy is one of the small number of craftspeople of genius in this century. Her importance is in the way she has dipped into the past, taken ancient designs and techniques, and transformed them into new statements. She has quickened and vitalized her ancestral traditions, and in so doing has given the world beautiful and unleashed a creative power in her own community, having inspired a whole new generation of Acoma pottery-makers.
