This is an indispensable book. For anyone interested in contemporary Japanese ceramics it offers an indepth look at the setting and the players through interviews with artists and dealers. Traditions, training, new ideas and opportunities are disclosed with an insider’s knowledge.
The authors are Alice and Halsey North, a married couple who ran an advisory business for non-profits, collected Japanese ceramics, and were long based in New York City, and Louise Allison Cort, the celebrated curator of ceramics at the Freer Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., now emeritus. Both Alice North and Louise Cort speak Japanese, so they were
