Article on Japanese Ceramics: How Japanese avant-garde ceramicists have tested the limits of clay.

“Japanese art post the second world war is infinitely fascinating. At a time when the country was under Allied occupation and Japan had paid a high price for the war in the Pacific to end, its artists were revelling in new found freedom.

Some of the most interesting work of this era was from avant-garde ceramicists. Their revolution in clay led to them abandoning the Mingei tradition of Japanese folk craft which included making functional vessels such as tea bowls.

In its place, they redefined themselves as artists, placed a premium on individual expression and, as modernists with a Japanese inflection, began producing abstract sculptural ceramics.”

Read more: https://theconversation.com/how-japanese-avant-garde-ceramicists-have-tested-the-limits-of-clay-184470?fbclid=IwAR1606ITPAP_V12ooRE1UiYGGDZxMuJ2XBzTIN2WjUZOuSp0AcZuAsoMZ3I

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