Tsuchi : Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art /

Show other versions (1)

"Bert Winther-Tamaki explores how Japanese artists have continually sought a passionate and redemptive engagement with earth. By focusing on the role of tsuchi (earthy materials such as soil and clay) as a convergence point for a wide range of creative practices, this book offers a critical rea...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winther-Tamaki, Bert, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Soils in art.
Ecology in art.
Art, Japanese > Themes, motives.
Sols dans l'art.
Art japonais > 21e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Art japonais > 20e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Art, Japanese > 21st century > Themes, motives.
Art, Japanese > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Postwar silos of tsuchi media. Ceramics : earth flavor in fired clay
  • Photography : soil conditions in the lens
  • Avant-garde actions : wrestling and digging earthy materials
  • Convergence and proliferation since the 1980s. The bubble and its aftermath : containment of spillage and blast
  • Earth diving before and after the triple disaster
  • Epilogue : tsuchi in the contaminated world to come.

Similar Items