Toshiko Takaezu : worlds within / edited by Glenn Adamson, Dakin Hart, and Kate Wiener.

Artist
Takaezu, Toshiko [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum ; New Haven : in association with Yale University Press, [2024]
  • ©2024
Description
x, 355 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

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Summary note
"Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) was an American artist whose multidisciplinary work in ceramics, painting, sculpture, weaving, and installation innovatively drew from the natural world, combining expressionist energies with influences from East Asia. The closed ceramic forms for which she is best known are effectively abstract paintings in the round. Her reputation as a ceramic artist, however, has obscured the breadth of her output in other mediums and her role within the larger art movements of the twentieth century. This book provides the first retrospective assessment of Takaezu's art and life, representing her diverse oeuvre, which spanned six decades, and her hybrid identity as an Asian American woman, artist, and teacher. This ambitious volume features essays exploring Takaezu's biography, her background as a Hawai'i-born artist of Okinawan heritage, the relationship between her abstract work and that of her contemporaries, the role of cultural exchange in her art, her impact as an educator, and more. Beautifully illustrated with nearly 300 images of artworks and archival photographs, and including an updated chronology, exhibition history, and recollections from the artist's former apprentices, the book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of this singular artist's career"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Exhibitions note
Published on the occasion of a 2024-26 national touring exhibition organized by The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, with assistance from the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation and the Takaezu family, held at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, March 20-July 28, 2024; Cranbrook Art Museum, September 11, 2024-January 12, 2025; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 2-May 18, 2025; Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 8-December 23, 2025; Honolulu Museum of Art, February 13-July 26, 2026.
Contents
  • Foreword / Darlene Fukuji
  • Preface / Spencer Bailey and Susan Kessler
  • Centering Toshiko Takaezu / Glenn Adamson
  • Excerpt from "Thrown form" (1975) / Toshiko Takaezu
  • Plates
  • Shimanchu imagination: a letter to Toshiko Takaezu / Laura Kina
  • Looking for Toshiko / Margo Machida
  • Takaezu's hidden soundscapes / Leilehua Lanzilotti
  • The nature of weaving: Toshiko Takaezu's work in fiber / Kate Wiener
  • Potters painting / Katy Siegel
  • Toshiko Takaezu and Japanese ceramics, 1955-56 / Ai Fukunaga and Nonie Gadsden
  • From volcano to ice: Toshiko Takaezu at Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1951-56 / Laura Mott
  • "Teacher-Potter": Toshiko Takaezu shapes a pedagogy / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold
  • Recollections / Bill Baumbach; Lorraine Kisly; Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei; Martha Russo; Kate Randall; Ted Adler; Liz Smith; Tim Clark; Andy Rahe; Ben Eberle; Fitzhugh Karol; Geoff Booras; David Kaufmann; Don Fletcher.
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Worlds within
ISBN
  • 9780300267402 (hardcover)
  • 0300267401 (hardcover)
LCCN
2023947543
OCLC
1405841248
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