Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics Contributor(s): Moeran, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0700710396 ISBN-13: 9780700710393 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1997 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Folk & Outsider Art - Crafts & Hobbies | Pottery & Ceramics - Social Science | Anthropology - Physical |
Dewey: 738.095 |
Series: Anthropology of Asia |
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.90 lbs) 276 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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'. |