Tea ceremony manual
By: Tom Sachs ; editor, Dakin Hart
Contributors: Hart, Dakin, editor, writer of introduction; Choi, Yeju, book designer; Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Publisher: Noguchi Museum
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780986430862
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions; Japanese tea ceremony in art
Work titles: Works
Description: Tea Ceremony Manual is a complete, lavishly-illustrated guide to Tom Sachs' culture of tea, featuring the artist's step-by-step instructions on how to perform a tea ceremony. Inspired by niche manuals such as The Tea Ceremony, by Seno Tanaka, The Fundamentals of Judo, by Yves Klein, and Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking, by Tage Frid, the book features a statement by the artist, an essay and haiku by Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart, a foreword by Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon, and substantial back-matter, including a visual index of all of Sachs' tea-related works and an array of contextualizing appendices. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony, on view at The Noguchi Museum thru July 24, 2016 and traveling to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas thru Jan 2018.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony at the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, New York, March 23, 2016-July 24, 2016.

Publisher information from website viewed 7/28/2016.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword & acknowledgments / Jenny Dixon; title: Introduction. A word about Tom Sachs : Tea Ceremony / Dakin Hart ; Zen, tea and the arts / by Musō Soseki ; A history of tea in space; title: The tea ceremony; title: 1. Host preparation; title: 2. Outer garden; title: 3. Inner garden; title: 4. Ceremony; title: 5. Conversation and games; title: Appendices.