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Strong Tea: Richard Notkin and the Yixing Tradition
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:55 pm
by mbanu
https://cfileonline.org/online-publicat ... rd-notkin/
A museum exhibition catalog for a 1990 show at the Seattle Art Museum, scanned and hosted digitally by Notkin's friend Garth Clark. (I think the lightbulb-teapot is very clever.
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Re: Strong Tea: Richard Notkin and the Yixing Tradition
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:46 pm
by pedant
awesome find!
In the early 1980s, ceramist Richard Notkin, captivated by the Chinese pottery of the Yixing kilns, transformed images he had been sculpting forover a decade. In response to the rigorous formalism and subdued coloration of Yixing ceramics, particularly the teapots valued by Ming and Qing dynasty literati, Notkin reduced his palette, concentrated on intricate permutations of functional teapot designs, and found a voice particularly suited to his exacting craftsmanship, cerebrality, and reflective, populist politics.
however, Garth's "3DIssue" web viewer was not to my liking, so i bothered to download the full-res assets, clean them up a little, and create an OCR'd (text-searchable) PDF.
i think it's a good balance of quality, file size, and usability. hopefully i did it justice:
Re: Strong Tea: Richard Notkin and the Yixing Tradition
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:14 am
by debunix
Wild stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Re: Strong Tea: Richard Notkin and the Yixing Tradition
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:23 am
by Bok
ditto!
Also to
@pedant for making it more accessible.