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New Haven, Connecticut : distributed by Yale University Press
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128 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, December 16, 2023-June 3, 2024; John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, July 27, 2024-May 11, 2025; and Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 13-August 31, 2025
Featured artists: Tsuji KyM ; Futamura Yoshimi ; Tokuda Yasokichi IV ; Tanaka Yu ; Fukumoto Fuku ; Fujino Sachiko ; Fujikasa Satoko ; Koike ShMko ; Hiruma Kazuyo ; Nakaigawa Yuki ; Ogawa Machiko ; Kishi Eiko ; Kitamura Junko ; Tsuboi Asuka ; Hosono Hitomi ; Hattori Makiko ; Tanaka Tomomi ; Hayashi Kaku ; Hoshino Kayoko ; Mishima Kimiyo ; Matsuda Yuriko ; Shigematsu Ayumi ; Hashimoto Machiko ; Shingu Sayaka ; Tashima Etsuko ; Katsumata Chieko ; Inaba Chikako ; Tokumaru KyMko ; Aoki Katsuyo ; Konno Tomoko ; Tomita Mikiko ; ₇ishi Sayaka ; Ikake Sayuri ; Kawaura Saki ; Mori Aya ; Yamaguchi Mio
Since World War II, women have made influential contributions to the ceramics field in Japan that have not been adequately recognized. This exhibition focuses on the explosion of innovative and technically ambitious compositions by such artists since 1970--a body of work which they developed in parallel with, but often separately from, traditional, male-dominated Japanese practice and its countermovements