Author: Glen R. BrownPublisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
ISBN: 9783858818652
Category : Art, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jun Kaneko, revered for his role in establishing modern ceramic art, has been equally prolific in a range of other media. Tracing the career of this dynamic Japanese-American artist from his early training and association with the pivotal California Clay Movement to his important public commissions and philanthropic concerns of the present, this book constitutes a detailed survey and analysis of nearly six decades of ceramics, drawing, painting, installation art, and opera design. With a particular emphasis on the most recent twenty years, and relying primarily on first-person interviews conducted with the artist since 2002, this richly illustrated monograph reflects on the principal concepts that have shaped Kaneko's art, situating them in the space between a Japanese Shinto-Buddhist ethos and the aesthetic tenets of Western Tachism and Abstract Expressionism.