Research Catalog

Title

Ceramics and modernity in Japan / edited by Meghen Jones and Louise Allison Cort.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jones, Meghen
• Cort, Louise Allison, 1944-

Description

xvii, 229 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"Ceramics and Modernity in Japan offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and preservation of ceramics during Japan's most dramatic period of modernization, in the Meiji to mid-Showa eras. As in other parts of the world, ceramics in modern Japan developed along the three ontological trajectories of art, craft and design. Yet, it is widely believed that no other modern nation was engaged with ceramics as much as Japan - a "potter's paradise" - in terms of creation, exhibition, and discourse. This book explores how Japanese ceramics came to achieve such a status and why they were such a significant form of cultural production. The volume's medium-specific focus encourages examination of issues regarding materials and practices unique to ceramics, including their distinct role throughout Japanese cultural history. Going beyond descriptive historical treatments of ceramics as the products of individuals or particular styles, the closely intertwined chapters also probe the relationship between ceramics and modernity and the ways in which ceramics in Japan were related to their counterparts in Asia and Europe. Featuring contributions by leading international specialists, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Art History and Japanese Studies"--

Series Statement

Routledge research in art history

Uniform Title

Routledge research in art history.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Pottery, Japanese > Meiji period, 1868-1912
• Pottery, Japanese > 20th century
• Art and society > Japan > History > 19th century
• Art and society > Japan > History > 20th century
• Art and society
• Pottery, Japanese
• Pottery, Japanese > Meiji period
• Japan

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A potter's paradise: the realm of ceramics in modern Japan / Meghen Jones -- Tradition, modernity, and national identity: celadon production at the Makuzu ceramic workshop, 1870-1916 / Clare Pollard -- More than "western": porcelain for the Meiji emperor's table / Mary Redfern -- Modernizing ceramic form and decoration: Kyoto potters and the Teiten / Gisela Jahn -- Unifying science and art : the Kyoto City Ceramic Research Institute (1896-1920) and ceramic art education during the Taisho era / Maezaki Shinya -- The spark that ignited the flame: Hamada Shoji, Paterson's Gallery, and the birth of English studio pottery / Julian Stair -- Okuda Seiichi and the new language of ceramics in Taisho (1912-1926) Japan / Seung Yeon Sang -- The nude, the empire, and the porcelain vessel idiom of Tomimoto Kenkichi / Meghen Jones -- Veiled references: the role of glaze in Japanese avant-garde ceramics / Louise Allison Cort -- Koyama Fujio's view of modern Japanese ceramics and his role in the creation of "living national treasures" / Kida Takuya -- Found in translation: ceramics and social change / Tanya Harrod.

Call Number

JQE 20-264

ISBN

• 9780367143305
• 0367143305
• 9780429031298 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429633485 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429630507 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429631993 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019027824
• 40029628646

OCLC

1108783340

Title

Ceramics and modernity in Japan / edited by Meghen Jones and Louise Allison Cort.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge research in art history

Routledge research in art history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Added Author

Jones, Meghen, editor.

Cort, Louise Allison, 1944- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Ceramics and modernity in japan 1. New York : Routledge, 2019. 9780429031298 (DLC) 2019027825

Other Standard Identifier

40029628646

Research Call Number

JQE 20-264