The first book to tell the stories of some of the most revered living Japanese ceramists of the century, tracing the evolution of modern and contemporary craft and art in Japan, and the artists’ considerable influence, which far transcends national borders. Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists is the first book to present conversations with some of the most important living Japanese ceramic artists. Tracing the evolution of modern and contemporary craft and art in Japan, this groundbreaking volume highlights sixteen individuals whose unparalleled skill and creative brilliance have lent them an influence that far transcends national borders. Despite forging illustrious careers and earning international recognition for their work, these sixteen artists have been little known in terms of their personal stories. Ranging in age from sixty-three to ninety-three, they embody the diverse experiences of several generations who have been active and successful from the late 1940s to the present day, a period of massive change. Now, sharing their stories for the first time in Listening to Clay, they not only describe their distinctive processes, inspirations, and relationships with clay, but together trace a seismic cultural shift through a field in which centuries-old but exclusionary potting traditions opened to new practitioners and kinds of practices. Listening to Clay includes conversations with artists born into pottery-making families, as well as with some of the first women admitted to the ceramics department of Tokyo University of the Arts, telling a larger story about ingenuity and trailblazing that has shaped contemporary art in Japan and around the world. Each artist is represented by an entry including a brief introduction, a portrait, selected examples of their work, and an intimate interview conducted by the authors over several in-person visits from 2004 to 2019. At the core of each story is the artist’s personal relationship to clay, often described as a collaboration with the material rather than an imposing of intention. The oldest artist interviewed, Hayashi Yasuo, enlisted in the army during WWII at age fifteen and trained as a kamikaze pilot. He was born into a family that had fired ceramics in cooperative kilns for generations, but he rejected traditional modes and went on to be the first artist in Japan to make truly abstract ceramic sculpture. In the late 1960s, another artist, Mishima Kimiyo, developed a technique of silkscreening on clay and began making ceramic newspapers to comment on the proliferation of the media. She became fascinated with trash, recreating it out of clay, and worked in relative obscurity for decades until she had a major exhibition in Tokyo in 2015. Featuring a preface by curator, writer, and historian Glenn Adamson, and a foreword by Monika Bincsik, the Associate Curator for Japanese Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Listening to Clay has been a project more than fifteen years in the making for authors Alice and Halsey North, respected and knowledgeable collectors and patrons of contemporary Japanese ceramics, and Louise Allison Cort, Curator Emerita of Ceramics, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution. The book also includes conversations with five important dealers of contemporary Japanese ceramics who have played and are playing a critical role in introducing the work of these artists to the world, several detailed appendices, and a glossary of terms, relevant people, and relationships. Listening to Clay is a long-overdue and insightful book that, for the first time, spotlights some of Japan’s most celebrated contemporary ceramic artists through personal, idiosyncratic accounts of their day-to-day lives, giving special access to their creative process and artistic development.
The second in Jeff Halsey's photographic series. Scenic photographs of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwestern North Carolina, as well as several churches and notable landmarks in Ashe and Alleghany Counties. Includes 30 photographs.
Photographs of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northwestern North Carolina. Scenes of the New River and the Blue Ridge Parkway in Ashe and Alleghany Counties by photographer, Jeff Halsey. The latest from Star Route Books and first in a series of photographic portfolios that attempt to describe and define the mountain region. Includes 31 photographs.
The final installment in the "e-Jeanne" series [including e-Jeanne: 2003, e-Jeanne: 2004 (January through June, e-Jeanne: 2004 (July through December)], "e-Jeanne Remnants: 2002, 2005, 2008" is the adventure of an ordinary North American woman as she lived through a watershed decade. Packed with humor, confrontation, wisdom, silliness, life and death, health and illness - all the normal components of life), Jeanne Halsey's "online journals" made for in-depth and interesting reading. "A must-read for anyone interested in real life in North America as told by an honest writer." Gloria Edwards
Account of the 1977-79 Trans Canada Expedition, consisting of David Halsey and Peter Souchuk who crossed Canada from west to east, on foot, by dogsled and by canoe, from Vancouver to Tadoussac, Quebec.
The LORD is my Shepherd" - the familiar words of Psalm 23. But now read: "The LORD is my Coach" ... "The LORD is my Caregiver" ... "The LORD is the One Who created you" -- rewritten by Christian authors learning the craft of "targeting your audience." The students of the School of Creative Christian Writing are happy to share their "homework" with you -- maybe you'll find yourself in here!
How did Simon Peter genuinely feel during the difficult hours between the arrest, trial, death, and then the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Not yet knowing that Jesus was alive once more, how could he - or anyone - ever expect to have ANOTHER CHANCE?
The quantity of journalism produced during World War I was unlike anything the then-budding mass media had ever seen. Correspondents at the front were dispatching voluminous reports on a daily basis, and though much of it was subject to censorship, it all eventually became available. It remains the most extraordinary firsthand look at the war that we have. Published immediately after the cessation of hostilities and compiled from those original journalistic sources-American, British, French, German, and others-this is an astonishing contemporary perspective on the Great War. This replica of the first 1919 edition includes all the original maps, photos, and illustrations, lending an even greater immediacy to readers a century later. Volume V covers March 1918 through September 1918 on the Western Front, from the American "invasion" of France to the first German bid for peace. American journalist and historian FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY (1851-1919) was literary editor of The New York Times from 1892 through 1896. He wrote and lectured extensively on history; his works include, as editor, the two-volume Great Epochs in American History Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (1912), and, as writer, the 10-volume Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (1914).
This book depicts a knowledge odyssey guided by engineering and physics concepts that are honed into pathways that help define certain parts of the natural world as we believe it to be. Stark differences are drawn from our interface with this virtual world that societies have concocted throughout the eons of time. This odyssey travels from the microcosm to the macrocosm; from infinity to infinity.
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