Brian Moeran

Folk Art Potters of Japan

Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780700710393
• ISBN-10: 0700710396
• Artikelnr.: 29375936

Autorenporträt

Brian Moeran

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Japanese Mingei Movement
Chapter 2 A Pottery Community
Chapter 3 Social Organization
Chapter 4 Ecology and Social Structure
Chapter 5 Labour Cooperation
Chapter 6 Environmental and Social Change
Chapter 7 The Mingei Boom and Economic Development
Chapter 8 The Decline of Community Solidarity
Chapter 9 Theory and Practice in Japanese Mingei
Chapter 10 Folk Art, Industrialization and Orientalism