Folk Art Potters of Japan
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Aesthetic Appraisal
Author_Brian Moeran
Branch House
Branch Households
Category=GTM
Category=JBCC
Category=JHM
Climbing Kiln
Direct Perception
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Flower Vases
Folk Art
Folk Craft
Important Intangible Cultural Properties
Japanese Folk Art
Japanese Rural Society
La Farge
Labour Cooperation
Main Households
Mingei Movement
Oita Prefecture
Potter Households
Private Kiln
Slip Clay
Social Organization
Symbolic Exchange Values
Tea Bowl
Tea Ceremony
Yanagi Soetsu
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780700706051
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
