| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 236 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
The Global and the Local in the Origins of the Raku Technique -- Anomie and Innovation in Kyoto: Ceramic Professionals, Amateurs, and Consumers -- Inventing Early Modern Identity: The Birth of the Raku House -- Institutionalization of the Iemoto Gaze: Tea, Raku, and the Iemoto System -- Reproduction and Appropriation in the Nationwide Dispersal of the Raku Technique -- Invventing Modern Identity: The Collapse of Warrior Patronage, the Rise of Individualism and Nationalism |
| Summary |
Morgan Pitelka examines raku, one of Japan's most famous arts and a pottery technique practised around the world. He considers four centuries of cultural invention and reinvention during times of both political stasis and socioeconomic upheaval |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Raku pottery.
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Potters -- Japan -- Biography
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raku (pottery)
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ART -- Ceramics.
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Pottery & Ceramics.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Potters
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Raku pottery
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Raku
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Töpfer
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Geschichte
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Japan
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780824862749 |
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0824862740 |
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