Ceramic Sculpture / Yagi Kazuo
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.73
- Title
- Ceramic Sculpture
- Artist
- Yagi Kazuo
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1918 - 1979
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1958
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Kinki (region)
- Kyoto (urban prefecture)
- Kyoto (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Kinki (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Kyoto (urban prefecture)
- Creation Place 5
- Kyoto (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Dimensions
- 19 cm x 81.5 cm x 6.5 cm (7 1/2 in. x 32 1/16 in. x 2 9/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- abstract sculpture
- Physical Description
- It is a long, rectangular unglazed ceramic piece, intended to be shown in horizontal position. Two thick slabs are connected with bridges inside. The front part has almost flat surface; there is a deep cut on the left side, in which mass of worm-like inner surface can be seen. The same surface is revealed in the middle, as well as on the right edge. The top of the slab has a several shallow holes and one deep cut, inside of which has worm-like surface, as explained above. There is also a dent on the top and on the right, from which worm-like mass seems to be coming out. Reddish shadows cast on left side, in the middle, and the right. There is a patch of clay on left side near the left cut. The bottom is flat.
- Subject Matter
- This is an abstract, ceramic sculpture, not for practical use.
- Secondary Keywords
- abstract expressionist
- descriptors
- international post-1945 styles and movements
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1449 x 589
- File Size
- 47 KB
- Record
- 1963/2.73
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"Ceramic Sculpture; Yagi Kazuo." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1963-sl-2.73/1963_2.73.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 03, 2024.