Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics

by Brian Moeran and Moeran Brian

Book Overview

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'.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700710396
• ISBN13: 9780700710393
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"