Art crafting towards the future
Subtitle: Kōgei miraiha
Contributors: Museum of Arts and Design (New York, N.Y.); Japan. Bunkachō; Kanazawa 21-seiki Bijutsukan
Publisher: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Kanazawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781890385347
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Decorative arts; Exhibitions; History; Handicraft; Japanese Pottery; Ceramics
Other titles: Kōgei miraiha; Japanese kōgei :; Towards the future
Description: "Japanese Kōgei  : Future Forward showcases the work of 12 established and emergent kōgei artists, and examines the changing role of this discipline within Japanese culture today. Kōgei is a genre of traditional art that may be roughly translated as artisan crafts -- a  means of highly skilled artistic expression, both in form and decoration, that is associated with specific regions and peoples in Japan. The subject is steeped in tradition and rooted in upholding conventional cultural ideals and aesthetics through the mastery of specialized techniques and materials -- MAD Museum website.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition with title Japanese kōgei : future forward organized by the Museum of Arts and Design and co-organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. The exhibition, held at the MAD (Museum of Arts and Design), October 20, 2015 to February 7, 2016,  is curated by Yūji Akimoto and coordinated at the Museum of Arts and Design by Ronald T. Labaco, Marcia Docter, Senior Curator, and Samantha De Tillio, Curatorial Assistant and Project Manager. This exhibtion is based on an earlier exhibtion, held 2012, at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.

Featured artists include Katsuyo Aoki, Yūki Hayama, Takashi Ikura, Tatsuo Kitamura (Unryūan), Takurō Kuwata, Masaatsu Mitsuke, Kōhei Nakamura, Shinkyō Nakamura, Harumi Noguchi, Toshio Ōhi, Yuri Takemura and Shin'ya Yamamura.

English with the title and artists' names also in Japanese.