This video is just amazing and am so grateful for Marty’s intuition such a long time ago to capture a living legend in real time. Thank you Joan for assembling this topic and making it easy to enjoy

This is amazing

Thank you for the informative video.

Really nice !

Beautiful pots!

Fascinating clips from the past. Deeply informative and therapeutic to watch. Very enriching to learn so many new things.

Don't forget Aptware and Jean Gerbino

nice look at contemporary ceramicist

Fantastic presentation - thank you so much. Marty's work is so important, and it's wonderful to hear him talk about it so informatively and warmly.

Wonderful talk thanks so much. Marty is a cool guy.

beautiful, craftsmanship on another level

This was a fantastic presentation of Mingei pottery! And the sharing of films by Marty Gross were absolutely incredible! Especially coupled with yours and his commentary makes it so endearing. Many thanks! Best, Stephen Rodriguez

Is the Van Vleck collection of Japanese prints on view in the museum? It seems like the museum collections of Japanese prints around the country are mostly out of view and out of mind because they are too easily damaged by exposure to light to be shown in galleries.

Your works are very amazing ..thanks for this vid❤

So cool! What do you use for the cords themselves?

SUPERB CONTENT!

Really excellent presentation - I'm fortunate enough to have just purchased an album of Hiroshige originals so this has been really educational

5:41 “a combination of large utilitarian vessels” displays an absurdly useless “art piece” pot split wide open and half melted. Not utilitarian or beautiful. It’s a pot lost to zealous adherence to destructively poor firing technique.

Dear friends of art, and especially of ukiyo-e! I confess that I always find it troubling how few comments I find amended to my favorite arts, music, and cultural sites, but how, when the subject is about conflict, derision, or all of this supposedly eminent “Armageddon,” then it’s like “1.7K” comments… “C’est la vie,” and more’s the pity! I had the pleasure (at the time so very greatly under-appreciated on my part!) of meeting Dr. Marks some few years back, and as I was rather a bit of a self appointed ukiyo-e “smart aleck,” Andreas should have simply boxed my ears (I’m certain, at this much later date, that he could have gotten off with a reduced charge of only perhaps “Justifiable Man’s Laughter,” and with the great “community service” he had already and still does fulfill, would be sentenced to no more, essentially, than “time already served!”)… Instead, Dr. Marks was very gracious and patient with me, attempting to let the air out my somewhat most egregious balloons without actually popping them! So I have to take issue with the contention of @we-see in the comments below, that Dr. Marks putting forth of the not unlikely contention that Hiroshige may NOT have traveled the entire Tokaido in 1832, are less than compelling! Once you couple this with the clear and rather unambiguous findings of Marije Jansen, in her very most wonderful little book “Hiroshige’s journey in the 60-odd provinces” (2004, Hotei Pub., Amsterdam), it becomes not at all unlikely that Hiroshige was not in any way averse to tapping into many rather less “shank’s mare” intensive sources of visual inspiration for his art! Although his diaries do suggest that he DID, in fact, actually travel, so it’s still uncertain whether he did or did not ever travel the whole route, as the official or unofficial recorder of the journey to deliver the gift of the Shogun’s horses to the Emperor… And it really DOESN’T MATTER! Hiroshige took ukiyo-e to the next stage beyond Hokusai, as Yoshi Toshi, Tsuchiya Koitsu, and Kawase Hasui, and others, ventured beyond Hiroshige! I was fascinated to hear all about the artist Arthur Dow, of whom I was heretofore unfamiliar! It prompts me to suggest that, along similar lines, people obtain or otherwise access a copy of Henri Rivière’s lovely little “Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower,” which will be found to dovetail nicely with all of this… And finally (and please with the understanding that I try to make up for the lack of numerous comments on my beloved “art” sites, by my uncowed and self favored luxurious loquacity!), that if I have the (now appreciated!) chance to meet Dr. Marks again, that he will forgive my prior ignorance and youthful exuberance, and deign to sign my copy of his wonderful and very colorful little book, “Japan Journeys,” which is one of the my and your best and most beautiful overviews of ukiyo-e EVER! So, in summing up, a very excellent and most informative program (my first “zoom” meeting!), with a couple of technical glitches, but which only add to the informality and charm! Thank you! - Namaste, Glenn Jones aka: “Fire Door Textoyevsky”

This was wonderful. Does anyone know where the work of Iguchi Daisuke is available for sale? I've seen many works that WERE up for sale on Google, but they were all sold.

Thank you, Joan, for making this discussion available for those of us who could not hear it in person

Beautiful video. A good time to learn something new. Perfect works. Definitely a work to have in many ways. Domo Arrigato.....

Excellent. Thank you.

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Thank you for the vid. The works are amasing. The questions maddingly disapponting. Very frustrating. "Do you see your pieces as functional vessels?" "What do you want people to feel?" Now, really?

Robert Mowry should not talk about things he is not expert in. Firstly, the (mechanism of) effect of carbon monoxide on the body. Secondly the color of the glaze has a much to do with the quantity of iron and titanium in the glaze as the reduction itself (and silica:alumina ratios are not insignificant either). And his explanation of reduction was pretty shoddy too.

Elegant. Stunningly peaceful forms that invite silent thought and inspiration. I am so impressed.

I'm glad that you introduced the Japanese culture of Shino and Oribe.

shoki the demom Queller i have one of this scroll

Daddy loves you joan

Wow THNX I'll quit now or forever trapped enviously copying her ethereal mass . bound by a technique what would she evolve to ?????

Beautiful beautiful work by Satako! How long will her work be at exhibited?

Greatest

Lovely darling

U left out deezz nutszz

¡¡¡¡¡Hermoso!!!!

Thank you

Thank you, that was a very informative historical perspective.

congratulations

More of this please.

WOW. Fantastic works.

Firing temperature?????

Stunningly beautiful pieces

Thank you. I've been looking for both the name and way to tie these for a set of go stones.

Absolutely magnificent work!

She creates beautiful objects and her work seems understated but has a strong presence

HOWNICE !