Brian Moeran

Folk Art Potters of Japan

Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Not only rewrites the history of contemporary Western ceramics but also engages in two important discourses in anthropology today: one concerned with art and aesthetics; the other with Orientalism. Amply illustrated, with a frank description of the operation of Japan's art pottery world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9780700706051
• ISBN-10: 0700706054
• Artikelnr.: 57048397

Autorenporträt

Brian Moeran

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Japanese Mingei Movement
Chapter 2 A Pottery Community
Chapter 3 Social Organization
Chapter 4 Ecology and Social Structure
Chapter 5 Labour Cooperation
Chapter 6 Environmental and Social Change
Chapter 7 The Mingei Boom and Economic Development
Chapter 8 The Decline of Community Solidarity
Chapter 9 Theory and Practice in Japanese Mingei
Chapter 10 Folk Art, Industrialization and Orientalism