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
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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