Jun Kaneko
The Space Between
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Beschreibung
An artist’s intimate relationship with his preferred medium: with his ceramics, Jun Kaneko tries the limits
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.
Drawing 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.
- First new book on revered Japanese-American artist Jun Kaneko in more than twenty years
- Explores the principal concepts that have shaped Jun Kaneko’s oeuvre and offers fascinating insights into unique, relentlessly self-sustaining creative process
- Only book in the market to traces Kaneko’s entire career to date, offering a detailed survey and analysis of his entire body of work
- Based on interviews the author conducted with Kaneko since 2002
- Die erste umfassende Monografie seit zwei Jahrzehnten zum Schaffen des japanisch-amerikanischen Künstlers Jun Kaneko
- Zeichnet erstmals überhaupt Kanekos Werdegang von den Anfängen bis heute nach und bietet eine detaillierte Übersicht und Untersuchung seines Gesamtwerks
- Basiert auf ausführlichen Gesprächen des Autors mit Jun Kaneko seit 2002
Autor*in
Glenn R. Brown
Themen in »Jun Kaneko«
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