Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture
- ISBN-10
- 151790417X
- ISBN-13
- 9781517904173
- Series
- Hard Bodies
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Author
- Andreas Marks
Description
Since the Neolithic era, artisans in East Asia have coated bowls, cups, boxes, baskets, and other utilitarian objects with a natural polymer distilled from the sap of the Rhus verniciflua, known as the lacquer tree. Lacquerware was, and still is, prized for its sheen--a lustrous beauty that artists learned to accentuate over the centuries with inlaid gold, silver, mother-of-pearl, and other precious materials. This tradition has undergone challenges over the past thirty years. A small but enterprising circle of lacquer artists has pushed the medium in entirely new and dynamic directions by creating large-scale sculptures--works that are both conceptually innovative and superbly exploitive of lacquer's natural virtues. Featuring thirty works by sixteen artists, this handsome publication details the first-ever exhibition of contemporary Japanese lacquer sculpture in the United States, shown at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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Other editions
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- 1994
- 212 pages
- Paperback
- Rutgers University Press
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- 1988
- 149 pages
- Paperback
- Dell
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