Japanese Bamboo Baskets

Author : Lloyd Cotsen
Publisher : Art Media Resources
ISBN 13 : 9781878529596
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Masanori Moroyama
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Bamboo Baskets written by Masanori Moroyama and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 2007-07-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once neglected in the West, Japanese basketry now claims a loyal following among art lovers, collectors, and craftspeople in the United States and Europe. Japanese Basketry acknowledges this growing interest by presenting a stunning array of the best baskets to come out of Japan in the last 150 years....[and] frames the pieces in a wealth of original material, beginning with a preface by pioneer collector Lloyd Cotsen -- from book jacket.

Author : Toshiko Miyabayashi McCallum
Publisher : University of California Museum of
ISBN 13 : 9780930741167
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Containing Beauty written by Toshiko Miyabayashi McCallum and published by University of California Museum of. This book was released on 1988 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : 一至·工藤
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Bamboo Baskets written by 一至·工藤 and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert T. Coffland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878529671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Arts written by Robert T. Coffland and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works by artists of the Japan Craft Arts Association, the Nitten World, and independent artists.

Author : Nancy Moore Bess
Publisher : Kodansha International
ISBN 13 : 9784770025104
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bamboo in Japan written by Nancy Moore Bess and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 2001-05-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fully illustrated guide to the art, craft and design of bamboo, as demonstrated by the Japanese. It demonstrates how to use inexpensive materials to create sophisticated effects in the home and garden. A list of bamboo collections, gardens and research sources is included. For centuries, bamboo has fascinated legions of craftspeople, plant lovers and devotees of the handcrafted object. And nowhere is bamboo used more elegantly and distinctly than in Japan. Its presence touches every part of daily life-art, crafts, design, literature, and food. Its beauty

Author : Maggie Oster
Publisher : Studio
ISBN 13 : 9780140243413
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bamboo Baskets written by Maggie Oster and published by Studio. This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses bamboo baskets in Japan, especially for flower arrangements and the tea ceremony

Author : Kazuyoshi Kudō
Publisher : Kodansha America
ISBN 13 : 9780870113949
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Bamboo Baskets written by Kazuyoshi Kudō and published by Kodansha America. This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maggie Oster
Publisher : Viking Press
ISBN 13 : 9780670861873
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bamboo Baskets written by Maggie Oster and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses bamboo baskets in Japan, especially for flower arrangements and the tea ceremony

Author : Hideyuki Oka
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590306198
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Wrap Five Eggs written by Hideyuki Oka and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Japanese packaging is an art form that applies sophisticated design and natural aesthetics to simple objects. In this elegant presentation of the baskets, boxes, wrappers, and containers that were used in ordinary, day-to-day life, we are offered a stunning example of a time before mass production. Largely constructed of bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper, and leaves, all of the objects shown here are made from natural materials. Through 221 black-and-white photographs of authentic examples of traditional Japanese packaging—with commentary on the origins, materials, and use of each piece—the items here offer a look into a lost art, while also reminding us of the connection to nature and the human imprint of handwork that was once so alive and vibrant in our everyday lives. This classic book was originally published under the title How to Wrap Five More Eggs in 1975. The eminent American designer George Nelson praised the work featured here, saying, “We have come a long, long way from the kind of thing so beautifully presented in this book. To suit the needs of super mass production, the traditional natural materials are too obstreperous . . . and one by one we have replaced them with the docile, predicable synthetics. . . . What we have gained from these [new] materials and wonderfully complicated processes to make up for the general pollution, rush, crowding, noise, sickness, and slickness is a subject for other forums. But what we have lost for sure is what this book is all about: a once-common sense of fitness in the relationships between hand, material, use, and shape, and above all, a sense of delight in the look and feel of very ordinary, humble things. This book is thus . . . a totally unexpected monument to a culture, a way of life, a universal sensibility carried through all objects down to the smallest, most inconsequential, and ephemeral things.” Now, over thirty years later, this revived classic on the art of traditional Japanese packing may leave us with the same response, and the same appreciation for the natural and utile packaging presented in this book.