Yagi Kazuo : the admission of the nonfunctional object into the Japanese pottery world

Author

Winther-Tamaki, Bert

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Journal of design history. 1999, Num. 2, Vol. 12, 123-141, 10 ill.

ISSN

0952-4649

Abstract (en)

The nonfunctional ceramic object is now a well-established fixture of the pottery world of Japan along with the vessel. The genealogy of its admission can be traced from two ends. First, it was innovated by the potter Yagi Kazuo in the 1950s as a means of reforming a vessel-centred practice that seemed in danger of becoming obsolete. Second, significant links between Yagi's non-vessel and the pottery tradition were explored in texts which canonized him as a member of the pottery world in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Yagi's followers in the genre of the "kiln-fired objet" affirmed its potential as the vehicle for a Japanese aesthetic. Since the pottery world of Japan was frequently negotiated by its proponents as though it were a reservoir of a unique Japanese sensibility, the admission of the non-vessel ceramic object as a property of this world was a transaction fraught with considerable consequence.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Decorative arts -- Ceramics and glass -- Japan
• Yagi, Kazuo, 1918-1979
• Sculpture
• Ceramic sculpture
• Japan
• 1900-2000
• Cultural identity
• Ceramics

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Arts décoratifs -- Céramique et verre -- Japon
• Yagi, Kazuo, 1918-1979
• Sculpture
• Sculpture céramique
• Japon
• 1900-2000
• Identité culturelle
• Céramique

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19991001-00210675

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