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context: ceramics > sources
Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth by Louise Allison Cort and Bert Winther-Tamaki
A book accompanying an exhibition. It's about evenly split between Noguchi, whose ceramics work strikes me as a very minor strand in his career, and not a terribly interesting one, and an overview of modern Japanese ceramics of the fine art tendency since WWII. The latter is more fertile ground, but this is far too brief to be of much use. The book is intelligent and knowledgeable on all levels, and solidly written, but part 1 seems uninteresting and part 2 hopelessly short.