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Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics
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Brian Moeran
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Hawaii Pr
Publication date
August 1, 1997
Pages
272
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780824820220
ISBN-10
0824820223
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.75 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.50 lbs.
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Out of Print
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$47.00
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university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art. It shows how different people in an art world bring to bear different sets of values as they negotiate the meaning of mingei and try to decide whether a pot is 'art', 'folk art', or mere 'craft'.
At the same time, this book is an unusual monograph in that it reaches beyond the mere study of an isolated community to trace the origins and history of 'folk art' in general. By showing how a set of aesthetic ideals originating in Britain was taken to Japan, and thence back to Europe and the United States - as a result of the activities of people like William Morris, Yanagi So etsu, Bernard Leach and Hamada Sho ji - this book rewrites the history of contemporary western ceramics.
At the same time, this book is an unusual monograph in that it reaches beyond the mere study of an isolated community to trace the origins and history of 'folk art' in general. By showing how a set of aesthetic ideals originating in Britain was taken to Japan, and thence back to Europe and the United States - as a result of the activities of people like William Morris, Yanagi So etsu, Bernard Leach and Hamada Sho ji - this book rewrites the history of contemporary western ceramics.
Editions
Hardcover
from Routledge (August 27, 1997)
9780700706051 | details & prices | 272 pages | List price $195.00
About: This volume not only rewrites the history of contemporary Western ceramics but also engages in two important discourses in anthropology today: one concerned with art and aesthetics; the other with Orientalism.
About: This volume not only rewrites the history of contemporary Western ceramics but also engages in two important discourses in anthropology today: one concerned with art and aesthetics; the other with Orientalism.
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from Univ of Hawaii Pr (August 1, 1997)
9780824820220 | details & prices | 272 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $47.00
About: This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art.
About: This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art.
Paperback
from Routledge (August 27, 1997)
9780700710393 | details & prices | 272 pages | List price $72.95
About: Presenting a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, this work includes a look at the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as 'mingei', or folk art.
About: Presenting a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, this work includes a look at the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as 'mingei', or folk art.
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