A Small Collection of Japanese Lacquer
Author : James Orange
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Lacquer and lacquering
ISBN :
Author : James Orange
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Lacquer and lacquering
ISBN :
Author : James Orange
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Lacquer and lacquering
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Author : Andrew Pekarik
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Lacquer and lacquering
ISBN : 0870992473
Author : Andreas Marks
Publisher : Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781517904173
Since the Neolithic era, artisans in East Asia have coated bowls, cups, boxes, baskets, and other utilitarian objects with a natural polymer distilled from the sap of the Rhus verniciflua, known as the lacquer tree. Lacquerware was, and still is, prized for its sheen--a lustrous beauty that artists learned to accentuate over the centuries with inlaid gold, silver, mother-of-pearl, and other precious materials. This tradition has undergone challenges over the past thirty years. A small but enterprising circle of lacquer artists has pushed the medium in entirely new and dynamic directions by creating large-scale sculptures--works that are both conceptually innovative and superbly exploitive of lacquer's natural virtues. Featuring thirty works by sixteen artists, this handsome publication details the first-ever exhibition of contemporary Japanese lacquer sculpture in the United States, shown at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Author : Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Art objects, Japanese
ISBN :
Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
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Author : Michael Dean
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Lacquer and lacquering
ISBN :
Author : Hannah Kirshner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1984877534
"With this book, you feel you can stop time and savor the rituals of life." --Maira Kalman An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns--by an American writer and food stylist who spent years working alongside artisans One night, Brooklyn-based artist and food writer Hannah Kirshner received a life-changing invitation to apprentice with a "saké evangelist" in a misty Japanese mountain village called Yamanaka. In a rapidly modernizing Japan, the region--a stronghold of the country's old-fashioned ways--was quickly becoming a destination for chefs and artisans looking to learn about the traditions that have long shaped Japanese culture. Kirshner put on a vest and tie and took her place behind the saké bar. Before long, she met a community of craftspeople, farmers, and foragers--master woodturners, hunters, a paper artist, and a man making charcoal in his nearly abandoned village on the outskirts of town. Kirshner found each craftsperson not only exhibited an extraordinary dedication to their work but their distinct expertise contributed to the fabric of the local culture. Inspired by these masters, she devoted herself to learning how they work and live. Taking readers deep into evergreen forests, terraced rice fields, and smoke-filled workshops, Kirshner captures the centuries-old traditions still alive in Yamanaka. Water, Wood, and Wild Things invites readers to see what goes into making a fine bowl, a cup of tea, or a harvest of rice and introduces the masters who dedicate their lives to this work. Part travelogue, part meditation on the meaning of work, and full of her own beautiful drawings and recipes, Kirshner's refreshing book is an ode to a place and its people, as well as a profound examination of what it means to sustain traditions and find purpose in cultivation and craft.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Middle Eastern philology
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Greenwood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1040130062
Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.