Timeless Beauty Traditional Japanese Folk Art

Name: Timeless Beauty Traditional Japanese Folk Art
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ISBN: 9788884910882

ISBN-10: 8884910889

ISBN-13: 9788884910882

Edition: 2002

Authors: Edmund de Waal

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The common Japanese objects that are described and illustrated in this volume are from the Jeffrey Montgomery Collection, one of the foremost collections of this type of art in the world. The objects date back to the Muromachi Period from 1392 to 1568 and the Meiji Period from 1868 to 1912.

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Skira Editore
Publication date: 1/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 10.25" wide x 12.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 6.248
Language: English

Edmund de Waal's porcelain is shown in many museum collections round the world and he has recently made installations for the VandA and Tate Britain. He was apprenticed as a potter, studied in Japan and read English at Cambridge. He is Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster and lives in London with his family.



'Art without finish': Japanese Arts in the West



The Making of the Montgomery Collection



Objects, Sculptures, Lacquerwares, Paintings, and Furniture



Ceramics



Masks



Metalwork



Textiles



Map of Japan


Chronology


Bibliography


Glossary


Index