Modern Japanese Ceramics Book

I wonder did i just pay 40 for an ad for this gallery.

Modern japanese ceramics book.

Modern japanese ceramics in american collections 9780913304389. There is a website that goes with the book and many of the pots in the book are for sale there. For that alone it may be worth purchasing this book. 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.

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. Excellent summary of contemporary japanese ceramics with marvelous pictures that fire the imagination. It s a picture book. First the good this book contains lots of beautiful pictures of japanese pottery from the 1990 s and early 21st century.

This is not a book i would like my serious potter friends to catch me reading. Organised geographically devotees of ceramics can use this guide. Now the not so good if you are expecting to see cutting edge modern ceramics from japan this is not the book for you. Contemporary japanese ceramics book.

Modern japanese ceramics book. No doubt the authors are serious about their love of modern japanese ceramics.