Jun Kaneko: The Space Between

Jun Kaneko, a Japanese-American artist who has been based in Omaha, Nebraska, since 1986, is known for his significant contribution to modern ceramic art. This book provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of nearly six decades of his work in ceramics, drawing, painting, installation art, and opera design. It focuses on the past 20 years, which have previously not been the subject of a comprehensive volume. The author, Glen R. Brown, discusses Kaneko's art, including his colossal glazed-ceramic Dangos and his sensitive coloristic stage and costume designs for operas. The book offers fascinating insights into Kaneko's creative process and the multiple conceptions of space that inform it, with over 200 color illustrations and substantial information not previously available in published form.

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 09 November 2020
Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag

Jun Kaneko, born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942, and based in Omaha, Nebraska, since 1986, is revered for his role in establishing modern ceramic art. However, he has been equally prolific in a range of other media. This book offers an entirely new and detailed survey and analysis of nearly six decades of Kaneko's work in ceramics, drawing, painting, installation art, and opera design. Tracing the career of this dynamic artist from his early training and subsequent association with the pivotal California Clay Movement to his important public commissions and philanthropic concerns of the present, it focuses in particular on the past 20 years, which have previously not been the subject of a comprehensive volume.

Drawing extensively on interviews he has conducted with Jun Kaneko since 2002, Glen R. Brown reflects on the principal concepts that have shaped Kaneko's art, situating them in the space between a Japanese Shinto ethos and the aesthetic tenets of Western Art Informel and Post-Painterly Abstraction. He discusses in-depth Kaneko's art, from the colossal glazed-ceramic Dangos to the sensitive coloristic stage and costume designs for operas. The book provides fascinating insights into Kaneko's unique, relentlessly self-sustaining creative process and the multiple conceptions of space that inform it. Featuring more than 200 color illustrations and substantial information not previously available in published form, this book offers an up-to-date definitive critical survey of this important artist's life and work.

Weight: 1828g
Dimension: 250 x 308 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783858818652