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context: sculpture > Enku
Enku: Master Carver by Grisha F. Dotzenko
Actually, there may be more words in the excellent foreword by Tsuneyoshi Tsuchiya than there are by Dotzenko. It's a bit heavy on waffle, and tries hard to lever Enku into some Western Modernist-humanist worldview, which seems very mistaken to me, but it has lots of big pictures of his astounding work, so on that level, certainly a book to be seen. The pics are hopelessly disorganised - pl.74 being a detail of pl.29 (and this sort of pattern is repeated) is not something I've ever encountered before, and seems perverse. It's all B&W, in case you're wondering if distribution of colour pages is the reason.