Japanese Bamboo Baskets: Masterworks of Form and Texture

Now on sale! Was $1,500, now only $250! Japanese Bamboo Baskets: Masterworks of Form and Texture surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century baskets of Japan, their place in history, and the elevation of bamboo craft to an art form. Published in 1999 by the Cotsen Occasional Press and edited by Joseph N. Newland, it includes essays by Lloyd E. Cotsen, Patricia J. Graham, Hiroko Johnson, Janet Koplos, and Moroyama Masanori. Additional contributions from Robert T. Coffland, Matsuzawa Kazuyoshi, Dale Slusser, and Carol Webb. This book was released in conjunction with the opening of a traveling exhibition titled Bamboo Masterworks: Japanese Baskets from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection. The exhibition was presented at five museums in the United States and five in Japan, including the Asia Society, New York; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; the Field Museum, Chicago; the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena; and the Honolulu Art Museum. More than 250 Japanese bamboo baskets from the Cotsen Collection