Art of Japanese Craft

From Japan’s first forays onto the international stage of world’s fairs in the late 19th cent. to the dynamic creativity of the 1920s and 1930s, and from the heady post-WWII period to the present day, Japanese craft art has exhibited a rich diversity of media and techniques. One of the first illustrated surveys in English of Modern-era Japanese crafts -- including ceramics, lacquerware, metalcraft, and wood -- this elegant book is an invaluable guide for the collector and...
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From Japan’s first forays onto the international stage of world’s fairs in the late 19th cent. to the dynamic creativity of the 1920s and 1930s, and from the heady post-WWII period to the present day, Japanese craft art has exhibited a rich diversity of media and techniques. One of the first illustrated surveys in English of Modern-era Japanese crafts -- including ceramics, lacquerware, metalcraft, and wood -- this elegant book is an invaluable guide for the collector and scholar. It discusses the artists and ideas that shaped and defined the aesthetic of 20th-cent. Japan, noting that this nation hails its artists as “living national treasures.” Also includes artists’ biographies and reproductions of their signatures and marks. Illustrations.