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The Art of Toshiko Takaezu
Tracing the artistic development of renowned potter Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011), this masterful study celebrates and analyzes an artist who held a significant place in the post-World War II craft movement in America. Born in Hawaii of Japanese descent in 1922, Takaezu worked actively in clay, fiber, and bronze for over sixty years. Influenced by midcentury modernism, her work transformed from functional vessels to abstract sculptural forms and installations. Over the years, continued to draw on a combination of Eastern and Western techniques and aesthetics, as well as her love of the natural world. In particular, Takaezu's vertical closed forms became a symbol of her work, created through a ...
Abstract Colour Paintings
'Roy Osborne: Abstract Colour Paintings' presents an annotated survey of the author's artworks 2008-2020. An accomplished colourist, colour theorist and historian, his previous publications include 'Lights and Pigments: Colour Principles for Artists', 'Color Influencing Form: A Color Coursebook', 'Books on Colour 1495-2020: History and Bibliography', and 'Renaissance Colour Symbolism'. Roy Osborne was awarded the Turner Medal of the Colour Group (Great Britain) in 2003, and the Colour in Art, Design and Environment Medal of the International Colour Association in 2019.
