The Spring 2009 issue of Style 1900 has featured my article, "Japan's Mark on American Art Pottery" with an eye-catching layout and wonderful photos. It is an abridged version of "Clay and Glaze: The Journey to Modern," Chapter 8 of my book, The Influence of Japanese Art on Design (Gibbs Smith, 2008).
Style 1900 is a great magazine dedicated to the first clearly "modern" era of American design. It specializes in beautifully presented articles for anyone with any level of interest in any aspect of Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, and early modernism, whether you want history or design ideas. Each article has suggestions for further reading and places to see collections, so it's a great gateway publication. Along with my Japanese and Rookwood pots, this issue has articles on Navajo design, English embroidery, Italian Art Nouveau and how to make a Bungalow-style bathroom.
Check them out at: www.style1900.com
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About Me
- Hannah
- San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- At San Francisco State University, University of California, Davis, and the University of California, Berkeley Extension, I teach the Arts of Asia, and also Japanese influences in Western decorative arts. I'm fascinated by how the intersection of cultures impacts design, and how changes in design both reflect and impel a society's ideals and vision of itself.
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This looks like a very nice magazine, they chose a good article as well. Bravo!
ReplyDeleteMatthew--thanks so much. I just looked at your site, and your own work is amazing--I especially like your orchid photos and your illustrations. People with great drafting skills and a fabulous color sense who are also very expressive awe me. On the outside, it's so different from what's in my book that I feel truly complimented. And on the inside, I keep thinking of a comment I often read from that era, that Japanese art had "freed" people. Aside from the formal qualities that I see in some of your own pieces online, I wonder if that spirit is part of your mindset, so natural now that "Japan" had nothing to do with at all.
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