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Eagle Art Publishing Inc.

Eagle Art Publishing is a New York based publisher with a wonderful new book on contemporary Japanese ceramics.

DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS: Asia

  Fired with Passion:
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
by Samuel J. Lurie and Beatrice L. Chang
2006, 263 pp, over 200 colour plates, map, hardbound, 31 x 26 cm.
ISBN-10: 1-891640-38-0 $60.00
ISBN-13: 978-1-891640-38-4



The publication of this book represents that rare event when an important, beautiful art is first introduced. Although most of the other arts of Japan may be well known, Japanese achievements in post-1945 ceramic sculpture are virtually unknown outside of the country.
   This groundbreaking, lavish volume has been written in a style directed toward enhancing aesthetic appreciation by a close, non-academic analysis of the exciting works illustrated. The authors, a major collector and a leading dealer, discuss, in plain English, with no 'artspeak' jargon, specifically what they believe is artistically meritorious in each piece.
   To better understand Japan's modern and contemporary ceramic artists, a survey of the history of Japanese ceramic art is included, which offers a glimpse of its wealth of formal invention, exuberance and sheer decorative pleasures. The ceramics in this publication promise to be a revelation to the general art-loving public, Asian art aficionados, and practicing potters.

   "For its breadth and knowledgeable, succinct text, this work immediately becomes the leading guide to this relatively specialized field of ceramics." Henry Berry, February, 2007

[Read a review from Arts of Asia Magazine]
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