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context: lacquerwork > sources
Rainbows and Shimmering Bridges: Contemporary Japanese Lacquerware by Masami Shiraishi
Another exhibition catalogue. A good overview of Meiji/20th C Japanese lacquer movements, but the art is all contemporary, 1980s and '90s. Comedy translation errors here and there (the singular of criteria is given as 'criterium'). The organisation of listings and pictures is as impenetrably confusing as any I've ever seen - but a lot of the objects are breathtaking, and they are very varied.