Bert Winther-Tamaki

Tsuchi

Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Bert Winther-Tamaki explores how Japanese artists have continually sought a passionate and redemptive engagement with earth. By focusing on the role of tsuchi (earthy materials such as soil and clay) as a convergence point for a wide range of creative practices, this book offers a critical reassessment of contemporary art in Japan and its intrinsic relationship to the environment"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781517911911
• ISBN-10: 1517911915
• Artikelnr.: 62926251

Autorenporträt

Bert Winther-Tamaki is professor in the art history department and visual studies program at the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Japanese Cultures of Earth
I. The Postwar Silos of Tsuchi Media
1. Ceramics: Earth Flavor in Fired Clay
2. Photography: Soil Conditions in the Lens
3. Avant-Garde Actions: Wrestling and Digging Earthy Materials
II. Convergence and Proliferation since the 1980s
4. The Bubble and Its Aftermath: Containment of Spillage and Blast
5. Earth Diving before and after the Triple Disaster
Epilogue: Tsuchi in the Contaminated World to Come
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index