List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Iconic Teabowl 1. Tea and the Tea Ceremony 2. Ceramics History 3. The Teabowl Travels 4. From Tearoom to Gallery Conclusion: The Iconic Teabowl – Past and Present Endnotes Bibliography Index
A complete history of the tea ceremony and teabowls with beautiful pieces from international potters.
Bonnie Kemske is a professional writer and critic, as well as a ceramic artist with a PhD from the Royal College of Art, UK. She was editor of Ceramic Review from 2010 to 2013, and has contributed articles to many international magazines such as Ceramics: Art & Perception and New Ceramics. In 2013 she curated an exhibition of teabowls at the Embassy of Japan in London. She is the author of Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend.
Bonnie Kemske has crafted a compelling and deeply personal
meditation on the power of the teabowl in Japan and in the world of
ceramics today. This volume is beautifully illustrated and
attentive to an array of historic and contemporary teabowls.
*Morgan Pitelka, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and author of Handmade Culture
(2005) and Spectacular Accumulation (2015)*
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