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Toshiko Takaezu: Eastern Tradition/Western Individualism |
| Section: THE ARTS / DESIGN |
| Author: Patricia Malarcher |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 902 Words, 5,653 Characters |
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Toshiko Takaezu's ceramics range from small pots with curves that fit the hollow of a hand to enormous cylindrical and globular sculptures that suggest trees and boulders. Clustered on the floor as they were recently at the Montclair (N.J.) Art Museum for a forty-year retrospective of her works, the larger pieces resembled a lunar landscape and a giant melon patch. But mounted on pedestals, at the Allentown (Penn.) Museum, the show's second venue, they became pure abstract sculpture.
The pleasure of a retrospective such as Toshiko Takaezu: Four Decades is in being able to trace an artist's development, noting where an idea first enters the work and watching it mature.
Walking among some...
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...f development, and its independence from pressures to conform to current trends, Toshiko's work represents values uncommon in American culture. Yet she has gained recognition and respect in the worlds of both fine arts and crafts, as well as in the academic community. Not through dialectics, but through the quiet persistence of its own reality, her work challenges us to reappraise our values.
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