Franklin D. Murphy Lectures #: Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan

Materials, Makers, and Mastery

Franklin D. Murphy Lectures #: Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan
Christine M E Guth
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9 Nov 2021 US
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9780520379817
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Crafts were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and how and from what materials they were made were matters of serious concern among all classes of society. In Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan, Christine M. E. Guth examines the network of forces-both material and immaterial-that supported Japan' s rich, diverse, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Exploring the institutions, modes of thought, and reciprocal relationships among people, materials, and tools, she draws particular attention to the role of women in crafts, embodied knowledge, and the special place of lacquer as a medium. By examining the ways and values of making that transcend specific media and practices, Guth illuminates the "craft culture" of early modern Japan.

Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery

Christine M. E. Guth led the Asian specialism in the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art' s History of Design Program from 2007 to 2016. Her books include Art, Tea, and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle; Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868; and Hokusai' s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon.
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ISBN-13: 9780520379817
Published: 9 Nov 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 203mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 590g
Pages: 264

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