Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition "Touching Fire. Women Ceramists in Japan", presented in Paris, at the Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet, from June 1 to October 3, 2022.
Touching Fire. Women Ceramicists in Japan. Exhibition Catalog.
Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts - Reunion of National Museums
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| N° d'inventaire | 25715 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 48 p., richly illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782711879298 |
For five years, the MNAAG has made ceramics by Japanese ceramists a major focus of its policy of enriching its collections.
In 2016, it acquired its first piece of white porcelain by the ceramist Hitomi Hosono (born in 1979). Her work, emblematic of the creativity of contemporary ceramic art in Japan in which women are at the forefront, inaugurated a reflection on the museum's opening to this artistic field: contemporary Japanese ceramics are one of the most dynamic in the world; they also pose in an exemplary way the question of the specificity of women's creation.
These artists gained access to the practice of ceramics thanks to the training offered to them in art schools only after the Second World War, in 1945 for the Kyoto University of the Arts, in 1952 for the Tokyo University. After centuries of prohibition, women now have "access to fire."
Following an approach supported by the Ministry of Culture, the MNAAG has since continued to enrich its collections in this field where the place of the "female artist" is both unique and prominent, with the acquisition of ten works from the 20th and 21st centuries.
In 2016, it acquired its first piece of white porcelain by the ceramist Hitomi Hosono (born in 1979). Her work, emblematic of the creativity of contemporary ceramic art in Japan in which women are at the forefront, inaugurated a reflection on the museum's opening to this artistic field: contemporary Japanese ceramics are one of the most dynamic in the world; they also pose in an exemplary way the question of the specificity of women's creation.
These artists gained access to the practice of ceramics thanks to the training offered to them in art schools only after the Second World War, in 1945 for the Kyoto University of the Arts, in 1952 for the Tokyo University. After centuries of prohibition, women now have "access to fire."
Following an approach supported by the Ministry of Culture, the MNAAG has since continued to enrich its collections in this field where the place of the "female artist" is both unique and prominent, with the acquisition of ten works from the 20th and 21st centuries.
In 2016, it acquired its first piece of white porcelain by the ceramist Hitomi Hosono (born in 1979). Her work, emblematic of the creativity of contemporary ceramic art in Japan in which women are at the forefront, inaugurated a reflection on the museum's opening to this artistic field: contemporary Japanese ceramics are one of the most dynamic in the world; they also pose in an exemplary way the question of the specificity of women's creation.
These artists gained access to the practice of ceramics thanks to the training offered to them in art schools only after the Second World War, in 1945 for the Kyoto University of the Arts, in 1952 for the Tokyo University. After centuries of prohibition, women now have "access to fire."
Following an approach supported by the Ministry of Culture, the MNAAG has since continued to enrich its collections in this field where the place of the "female artist" is both unique and prominent, with the acquisition of ten works from the 20th and 21st centuries.