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Book Description: Contemporary Japanese ceramic artists are heirs to the oldest and richest pottery tradition on earth, dating back perhaps to 15,000 BCE. However, rather than ignore or edit this rich legacy, modern ceramists selectively and eclectically draw from it, manipulating a myriad variety of techniques, glazes, and forms to realize their new and arresting visions. Simply put, modern Japanese ceramics are unrivaled. The approximately 150 works included here have been selected from major Japanese institutions and noted Western collections; all are strikingly photographed in full color and represent the greatest modern masterpieces of Japanese ceramic art. Together they constitute an introduction and overview of the most exciting developments of postwar Japanese ceramics. This lavish and oversized volume has been designed in a lively and attractive style to target a readership not only of Asian art aficionados and practicing potters, but also the general art-loving public for whom the Japanese ceramic sculpture produced over the past half century will be a revelation. In view of that readership, the writing style is popular, not academic, and principally directed toward enhancing aesthetic appreciation. Nonetheless the text, collaboratively written by a major art collector and the leading Western dealer in contemporary Japanese ceramics, has been edited by a distinguished Asian art scholar.

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