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1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) |
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Routledge research in art history |
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Routledge research in art history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Notes on names and translations; 1 A potter's paradise: The realm of ceramics in modern Japan; PART I; 2 Tradition, modernity, and national identity: Celadon production at the Makuzu ceramic workshop 1870-1916; 3 More than "Western": Porcelain for the Meiji Emperor's table; PART II; 4 Modernizing ceramic form and decoration: Kyoto potters and the Teiten |
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5 Unifying science and art: The Kyoto City Ceramic Research Institute (1896-1920) and ceramic art education during the Taisho eraPART III; 6 The spark that ignited the flame: Hamada Shōji, Paterson's Gallery, and the birth of English studio pottery; 7 Okuda Seiichi and the new language of ceramics in Taisho (1912-1926) Japan; 8 The nude, the empire, and the porcelain vessel idiom of Tomimoto Kenkichi; PART IV; 9 Veiled references: The role of glaze in Japanese avant-garde ceramics; 10 Koyama Fujio's view of modern Japanese ceramics and his role in the creation of "Living National Treasures." |
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EPILOGUE11 Found in translation: Ceramics and social change; Index |
| Summary |
"Ceramics and Modernity in Japan offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and preservation of ceramics during Japan's most dramatic period of modernization, in the Meiji to mid-Showa eras. As in other parts of the world, ceramics in modern Japan developed along the three ontological trajectories of art, craft and design. Yet, it is widely believed that no other modern nation was engaged with ceramics as much as Japan - a "potter's paradise" - in terms of creation, exhibition, and discourse. This book explores how Japanese ceramics came to achieve such a status and why they were such a significant form of cultural production. The volume's medium-specific focus encourages examination of issues regarding materials and practices unique to ceramics, including their distinct role throughout Japanese cultural history. Going beyond descriptive historical treatments of ceramics as the products of individuals or particular styles, the closely-intertwined chapters also probe the relationship between ceramics and modernity and the ways in which ceramics in Japan were related to their counterparts in Asia and Europe. Featuring contributions by leading international specialists, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Art History and Japanese Studies"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Meghen Jones is Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies at the New York State College of Ceramics of Alfred University, USA. Her research centers on ceramics, design, and modern art in Japan and in global perspective. Louise Allison Cort is Curator Emerita for Ceramics, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, USA. Her primary research interests are historical and contemporary ceramics in Japan, Mainland Southeast Asia, and India |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 13, 2019) |
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Pottery, Japanese -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
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Pottery, Japanese -- 20th century.
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Art and society -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
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Art and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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ART / History / General
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ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
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Art and society
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Pottery, Japanese
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Pottery, Japanese -- Meiji period
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Meghen, editor.
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Cort, Louise Allison, 1944- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019027825 |
| ISBN |
9780429631993 |
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0429631995 |
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9780429633485 |
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0429633483 |
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9780429630507 |
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0429630506 |
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9780429031298 |
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0429031297 |
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