Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

To accompany the exhibition Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, The Noguchi Museum, in association with Yale University Press, presents a new monograph on Toshiko Takaezu.

This comprehensive exploration is the first to be developed with full access to the artist’s newly digitized papers in the Archives of American Art, and represents an extraordinary depth of research and range of perspectives. The volume, edited by Glenn Adamson, Dakin Hart, and Kate Wiener, features nine new essays on Takaezu’s life and work by leading scholars, curators, and artists including Adamson, Wiener, Ai Fukunaga, Nonie Gadsden, Diana Greenwold, Laura Kina, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Margo Machida, Laura Mott, and Katy Siegel.

The monograph also features insightful reflections from a group of Takaezu’s former apprentices; writing by Takaezu; an updated chronology, exhibition history, and bibliography; and close to 300 images including newly commissioned photographs of Takaezu’s work and a trove of archival photographs. The monograph stands as the most ambitious study of an American ceramic artist to date.