Japanese Bamboo Baskets

Japanese Bamboo Baskets
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Publisher : Art Media Resources
Total Pages : 391
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ISBN-10 : 1878529595
ISBN-13 : 9781878529596
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Book Synopsis Japanese Bamboo Baskets by : Lloyd Cotsen

Download or read book Japanese Bamboo Baskets written by Lloyd Cotsen and published by Art Media Resources. This book was released on 1999 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Bamboo Baskets: Masterworks of Form and Texture surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century baskets of Japan, their place in history, and the elevation of bamboo craft work to an art form. It features more than 250 illustrations of selections from the largest known collection of Japanese flower baskets. This is the first book in English to examine bamboo baskets as modern sculptural masterpieces as well as chronicle the development of Japanese flower-arranging baskets from utilitarian containers through their subsequent transformation into art. At the heart of this volume are dramatic portraits of works in the Cotsen Collection. Full-page and double-page illustrations abound. Large-scale details and second views evoke the forms, textures and three-dimensionality Of the baskets, revealing their monumentality and the architecture of their construction. The baskets illustrated were selected primarily for their visual qualities, and are organized by region. They rage from 1890s examples by the first basket maker who signed his work to 1990s creations by leading bamboo crafts artists. Pieces by all those who have been made Living National Treasures are included. This book is filled with new information and superlative works of art. It will be treasured by anyone who has known the joy of holding a rough-woven basket or admired the delicate tracery of bamboo strips in a contemporary work of bamboo art.


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