The fourth edition of the best-selling monograph features a new cover color and artwork.
"JB Blunk" showcases the extensive range of the artist's practice, including never-before-seen archival materials and newly commissioned photographs of his jewelry, ceramics, paintings, furniture, sculpture, and hand-built house. The book contains essays by Lucy Lippard, Glenn Adamson, Fariba Bogzaran, Louise Allison Cort, and René Bustamante.
These essays place Blunk in the context of his contemporaries, materials, and environments. Lippard connects Blunk’s interdisciplinary approach with her own archaeological method of art history and criticism. Cort and Bogzaran explore the early relationships and experiences that shaped Blunk in Japan and Northern California, respectively. Additionally, an archival interview with Blunk from 1978 and a new interview with his longtime friend and studio assistant, Rick Yoshimoto, provide primary insights into Blunk’s work and process, spanning forty years.
“Wood. Clay. Stone. Spirit. These are the elements from which JB Blunk created his work, and a more elemental artist of the postwar era would be hard to find. Blunk proceeded through sheer instinct and in deep conversation with nature; his art was the ultimate expression of a life lived off the grid.” —Glenn Adamson
Details:
Design: Åbäke
Printed by: Die Keure
First published: 2021
Fourth edition published: 2024
ISBN: 978—1—907908—86—6
Fourth edition: 4000 copies
Pages: 224
Width: 210 mm
Height: 260 mm
Weight: 1075 gram
Cover: Hardback
Language: English
