Description: Title Kumakura Junkichi Exhibition Organs That ProvokePublication Year 1989It has approx 184 pages. Fortunatly,six pages are written in English.Unlike other Japanese sellers,I have this item in stock.Please do bid with confidence.Mr. Osamu Suzuki, a member of Sodeisha, is collaborating on this exhibition. Since World War II, Japanese crafts have developed through incorporating new trends that were introduced first in works not intended for practical use. This tendency was first established in the field of ceramics. And central in the innovation was the ceramists' group Sodeisha. Junkichi Kumakura became a member of this group in 1957, and was active as one of the principal members in the following years.Within the group, serious questions were posed on the meaning of three-dimensional ceramic works with no practical use and their difference from sculpture. And this resulted in the creation of the new style called "objet ceramics" in the mid-1960s. Also Kumakura himself, who had concentrated on importing styles from sculpture early in his career, rediscovered the importance of the clay and the fire, which form the basis for all ceramic art, and established around the same time his own style that made the most of the nature of clay. After that, the task Kumakura chose for himself was to express within the order of the medium of ceramics the oppressed human existence in today's society and the fight for the recovery of life. He also joined the craft movement, which aimed at the restoration of humanity in everyday life, because of his involve- ment with the above problems.In this exhibition, we hope to trace the various styles in Kumakura's career in order to clarify their significance and to place his work in the history of postwar Japanese ceramics.In conclusion, we would like to express our deep gratitude to the artist's family who have given us most generous cooperation and to the owners of the works who have so readily loaned us their valued possessions.September 1989Hitoshi OsakiDirectorThe National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
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Origin: Japan
Publication Year: 1989
Type: Catalog
Language: Japanese
Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan
Topic: Art & Exhibitions
