Jun Kaneko : the space between / Glen R. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Glen R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kaneko, Jun, 1942---Criticism and interpretation.

Kaneko, Jun.

Kaneko, Jun, 1942-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

261 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Space between

Place of Publication:

Zürich : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2021]

Summary:

Jun Kaneko, born in 1942 in Nagoya, Japan, and based in Omaha, Nebraska, since 1986, is revered for his role in establishing modern ceramic art, yet he has been equally prolific in a range of other media. This book offers an entirely new and detailed survey and analysis of nearly six decades of Kaneko?s work in ceramics, drawing, painting, installation art, and opera design. Tracing the career of this dynamic artist from his early training and subsequent association with the pivotal California Clay Movement to his important public commissions and philanthropic concerns of the present, it focuses in particular on the past twenty years, which have previously not been the subject of a comprehensive volume.0Drawing extensively on interviews he has conducted with Jun Kaneko since 2002, Glen R. Brown reflects on the principal concepts that have shaped Kaneko?s art, situating them in the space between a Japanese Shinto ethos and the aesthetic tenets of Western art informel and Post-Painterly Abstraction. These concepts provide context for in-depth discussion of Kaneko?s art, from the colossal glazed-ceramic Dangos to the sensitive coloristic stage and costume designs for Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, and Fidelio. From these, a fascinating picture emerges of Kaneko?s unique, relentlessly self-sustaining creative process and the multiple conceptions of space that inform it. Featuring two hundred color illustrations and substantial information not previously available in published form, this book offers an up-to-date definitive critical survey of this important artist?s life and work.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Bombs and Rebellion: Origins in Wartime and Postwar Japan

Seeds of Synthesis: California Clay and Post-Painterly Abstraction

Space as Phenomenon

Modes of Space: Intervallic, Relational, Dimensional

The Vertical: Ovals, Slabs, and Walls

The Vertical: Drawing and Painting

Painting in Three Dimensions: Dangos and Installations

Adjustment of Space: Heads and Tanuki

Glass, Light, Space, and Scale: Toward the Gesamtkunstwerk

Opera Design: Complexity and Responsibility.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Kaneko, Jun, 1942- Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9783858818652

3858818658

OCLC:

1223316687

Publisher Number:

9783858818652