Author: Marvin Sweet
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 7119042777
Published on: 2006-01
Hardcover
Illustrated with more than 150 images, the Yixing Effect : Echoes of the Chinese Scholar by American ceramist Marvin Sweet , offers the reader (and viewer)many riches: a concise and thoughtful history of the scholar tradition in China , tracing its philosophical underpinnings and the scholars’ ties to the Yixing potters ; an illuminating essay on the influence of Yixing ware in darlier centuries in Europe and America ; and an insightful overview of the many ways American artists have worked with , played with ,and elaborated upon the Yixing tradition.
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 7119042777
Published on: 2006-01
Hardcover
Illustrated with more than 150 images, the Yixing Effect : Echoes of the Chinese Scholar by American ceramist Marvin Sweet , offers the reader (and viewer)many riches: a concise and thoughtful history of the scholar tradition in China , tracing its philosophical underpinnings and the scholars’ ties to the Yixing potters ; an illuminating essay on the influence of Yixing ware in darlier centuries in Europe and America ; and an insightful overview of the many ways American artists have worked with , played with ,and elaborated upon the Yixing tradition.
Acknowledgements
Map of Yixing Region
Chronology
Preface by Rick Newby
Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Scholars’ path
Chapter 2 – A Collection of Yixing Ware
Chapter 3 –Yixing Ware and its Influence on Early European Ceramics
Chapter 4 – Contemporary American Interpretations
Afterword
What the Artists say
Index of Images, Contemporary Artists
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Authors
Notes to the Text
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