Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture

by Andreas Marks

Since the Neolithic era, artisans in East Asia have coated bowls, cups, boxes, baskets, and other utilitarian objects with a natural polymer distilled from the sap of the Rhus verniciflua, known as the lacquer tree. Lacquerware was, and still is, prized for its sheen--a lustrous beauty that artists learned to accentuate over the centuries with inlaid gold, silver, mother-of-pearl, and other precious materials. This tradition has undergone challenges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151790417X
• ISBN13: 9781517904173
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.9" x 12.0"