Posted in Folklore, Visual Anthropology, Art on Jun 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
Several years ago I was asked to design a glyphic mural for the town of Santa Elena as part of a gift to the community for allowing the Duke University-UNC Summer Yucatec program to be housed there for part of their six week course. Instead of simply copying ancient texts that have little direct […]
Posted in Art, Ceramics on Jun 11th, 2007 2 Comments »
Mihara Ken is an exceptional ceramist whose new work is currently on view in the show “Kigen - A New Beginning” at the Yufuku Gallery in Tokyo. Traditionally, he has crafted his sekki wares through a complicated double firing where the bisqued vessels are encased in a layer of clay, which is removed […]
Posted in Art, Ceramics, Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2007 2 Comments »
In the first part of this series I talked a little about collecting and ended my last post with a discussion of ceramics and several questions about aesthetic judgment. I also mentioned that one of the reasons surveys of art history shy away from ceramics is because they are so often nonrepresentational. That, of […]
Posted in Art on Jun 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
In 1917 Marcel Duchamp, under the pseudonym of R. Mutt, submitted a signed and dated urinal entitled Fountain to an exhibition organized by the Society of Independent Artist. The name Mutt is a play on the name of the company, J.L. Mott Iron Works, from where he bought the urinal and was additionally meant […]
Posted in Art, Ceramics on Jun 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I have collected ceramics since childhood. This Satsuma-yaki yunomi depicting a ripe pomegranate is one of my first pieces of Japanese pottery. I bought it from an old store in one of the covered malls in downtown Kagoshima over a decade ago. Two women, perhaps a mother and daughter, packed the cup and its mate […]
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My Essays in Idleness
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