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Japanese Sculpture: Out of Nature
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THE ARTS
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7 / 1991 |
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Until very recently, every book and article written about Japanese sculpture ended on work created seven hundred years ago. Even the term Japanese sculpture was limited to Chinese- (and Korean-) influenced Buddhist figures produced from the seventh through the fourteenth centuries.
Two major exhibitions of modern Japanese art at important art institutions--Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, which originated at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1989, and A Primal Spirit: Ten Contemporary Japanese Sculptors, which began its U.S. tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1990 and is currently at the National Gallery of Canada--have given Americans their first chance to look at this new work. And a new book, Contemporary Japanese Sculpture (Abbeville Press), analyzes the relationship of Shinto, the indigenous faith, to the sculpture being created today.
The work on the following pages, all from A Primal Spirit, is imbued with a spirituality that reflects the artists' attitude to nature implicit in the Shinto tradition. The sculptors use organic materials--stone, wood, fiber--that recall the natural process of growth and decay.
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