Lee Love on sun 14 aug 05
Vince Pitelka wrote:
> Unfortunately the incredible cost to Korea is rarely acknowledged or
> discussed openly,
War always sucks. Our latest example is the sacking and
looting of Iraq's national treasures. Iraq/Mesopotamia is the cradle
of Western civilization. This might be the most significant cultural
lost of the century. Iraq was where the first potter's wheels were
used (southern Iraq = Mesopotamia.) See here:
http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/potters_wheel.htm
It is ironic that Chosen pottery was brought to the
attention of the collecting world by Rikyu and that the only examples of
the Ido bowls (that I am aware of) are in Japan. The coming together
of cultures, sometimes even through warfare as bad as it is, brings
about innovations and creativity. Innovations rarely occur in cultural
isolation. The China: Crossroads of Civilization show at the Mori
was a good example of cultural cross-fertilization:
http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/china/about/index.html
Check this webpage out. There is a woman in Hadong
Saemigol, who is trying to preserve the cultural sites and resurrect
Chosen pottery. She toured Japan searching out the Ido bowls in
museums there:
http://www.saemigol.co.kr/eng/sabal.aspx
Speaking of tea bowls, check out Bob Brisco's show:
http://www.akardesign.com/art/ceramics/currentshow.htm
--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://seisokuro.blogspot.com/ My Photo Logs
"The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything.
The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows
it and who don't."
-- Burley Coulter (Wendell Berry)
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