RADICAL CLAY: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTS FROM JAPAN

A catalog that accompanies a unique exhibition of 36 contemporary, groundbreaking, Japanese women artists, from the private collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horwitz (Chicago Institute of Art 2023). These artists pushed the boundaries of clay in their ideas, style, and technique. They display a high level of technical virtuosity with Sisyphean labored surfaces, complexity, and detail. Many of these artists have works in leading museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that has an impressive permanent collection of modern Japanese ceramics. They make loaded figurative works in bright colors, hildlike with an anti-aesthetic. The issues they raise concern gender, race, identity and social issues influenced by pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Oldenberg, Walt Disney with consumer symbols and Afro American iconography.

THE ALLURE OF JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY CERAMIC

A book that summarizes 40 years of work done by the New York gallerist Joan Mirviss showing Japanese ceramics. Mirviss exposed American collectors to the long tradition of Japanese ceramics educating them about the aesthetic and its importance. She contributed to creating important collections and some of these were later donated to important museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

ANDILE DYALVANE: ANCESTRAL WISDOM

A book accompanying the exhibition of the young South African artist who as taken the world by storm with his large ceramic sculptures with their unique
ethnic language in dialog with traditional Xhosa pots. The works in the book were shown in Cape Town and Los Angeles in a gallery that focuses on works made by artists from Africa. Andile exhibited in the Biennale of Art and Design at MUZA in 2023 showing large African ceramic chairs.

Mould Making Manual

A new technology book by Jonathan Kaplan that deals with different casting techniques with images of works made by a variety of artists demonstrating these techniques.