MASTER PIECES: Eleven Modern Japanese Ceramicists
£55.00
MASTER PIECES: Eleven Modern Japanese Ceramicists brings together sixteen works by eleven of the most important figures in Japanese ceramics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Spanning a century of practice, the publication explores the diverse ways in which these artists have transformed Japanese ceramic tradition into individual and innovative forms of artistic expression.
Featuring eleven essays by eleven different writers, the book offers a range of perspectives on the artists and their work. From the reinterpretation of historic techniques to radical explorations of form, surface, pattern and material, the works demonstrate the extraordinary range of possibilities offered by clay. Together, they invite a reconsideration of Japanese ceramics within the wider history of modern art, and of what makes a ceramic object modern.
Published to accompany the exhibition MASTER PIECES, presented by deBiousse&West at Carpenters. Le Marais, Paris, the publication continues the gallery’s series of books dedicated to the scholarship and craftsmanship of Japanese ceramics.
deBiousse & West Publishing, 2026
Hardcover, 96pp
255 x 215mm
Featuring eleven essays by eleven different writers, the book offers a range of perspectives on the artists and their work. From the reinterpretation of historic techniques to radical explorations of form, surface, pattern and material, the works demonstrate the extraordinary range of possibilities offered by clay. Together, they invite a reconsideration of Japanese ceramics within the wider history of modern art, and of what makes a ceramic object modern.
Published to accompany the exhibition MASTER PIECES, presented by deBiousse&West at Carpenters. Le Marais, Paris, the publication continues the gallery’s series of books dedicated to the scholarship and craftsmanship of Japanese ceramics.
deBiousse & West Publishing, 2026
Hardcover, 96pp
255 x 215mm
