Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture

by Andreas Marks

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Since the Neolithic era, artisans in East Asia have coated bowls, cups, boxes, baskets, and other utilitarian objects with a natural polymer distilled from the sap of the Rhus verniciflua, known as the lacquer tree. Lacquerware was, and still is, prized for its sheen--a lustrous beauty that artists learned to accentuate over the centuries with inlaid gold, silver, mother-of-pearl, and other precious materials. This tradition has undergone challenges...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:151790417X

ISBN13:9781517904173

Release Date:October 2017

Publisher:Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Length:176 Pages

Weight:2.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 9.9" x 12.0"

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