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Synopsis
Tracing the artistic development of renowned potter Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011), this masterful study celebrates and analyzes an artist who held a significant place in the post-World War II craft movement in America.
Born in Hawaii of Japanese descent in 1922, Takaezu worked actively in clay, fiber, and bronze for over sixty years. Influenced by midcentury modernism, her work transformed from functional vessels to abstract sculptural forms and installations. Over the years, continued to draw on a combination of Eastern and Western techniques and aesthetics, as well as her love of the natural world. In particular, Takaezu's vertical closed forms became a symbol of her work, created through a combination of wheel-throwing and hand-building techniques that allowed her to grow her vessels vertically and eased the circular restrictions of the wheel. In addition to her art, Takaezu was renowned for her teaching, including twenty years at Princeton University.
This beautifully illustrated book offers the first scholarly analysis of Takaezu's life work and includes essays by Paul Smith, director emeritus of the American Craft Museum, and Janet Koplos, former senior editor of Art in America. Jack Lenor Larsen, a textile designer, author, collector, and advocate of traditional and contemporary craftsmanship, provides a foreword.
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"This book is an important addition to writings on Toshiko Takaezu, her life and her work. Held succeeds in combining personal accounts and anecdote with scholarly analysis of her works and their significance to the arts. From the quiet interiors of her vessels to the chiming of her bronze bells, the essays and the images reveal her reverence, her passion, her discipline, and her drive."--Elaine Olafson Henry, editor and publisher, Ceramics: Art and Perception and Ceramics: TECHNICAL
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Tracing the artistic development of renowned potter Toshiko Takaezu, this masterful study celebrates and analyzes an artist who holds a significant place in the post-World War II craft movement in America.
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- PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0807834823
- ISBN 13 9780807834824
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
- EditorHeld Peter
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The book is considered to be one of the first scholarly analyses of this important ceramics artist, who is considered to have played an important role in the post-World War II craft movement in the US.The dust jacket has some minor shelf-wear including a small tear in the bottom-right of the front cover. The book is slightly bent on the top left corner of the back cover. Otherwise the book is almost like new with clean and unmarked pages. Seller Inventory # 2021-L168
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