1989. 168 pages, 100+ color photograpahs, one map, seven regional commentaries by curators and researchers of the State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR, Leningrad.

Folk Art of the Soviet Union: Reflections of a Rich Cultural Diversity of the 15 Republics

Arts & Photography

Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art

Longenecker, Martha

San Diego Arts Festival 1989

History & Criticism

Mingei Intl Museum of World

Mingei International documentary publication. This exhibition included ancient and contemporary Mesoamerican sculptures in stone, ceramic, jade and wood. On loan from thirty-one museums and private collections, these objects express man's symbolic use of natural forms. 
Guest-curated by Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Ph.D., Latin American Art historian. 
This exhibition included ancient and contemporary Mesoamerican sculptures in stone, ceramic, jade and wood. On loan from thirty-one museums and private collections, these objects express man's symbolic use of natural forms. 
Includes essay by Jeanette Favrot Peterson "Flora and Fauan as Metaphor in Precolumbian Mesoamerica."

Precolumbian Flora and Fauna: Continuity of Plant and Animal Themes in Mesoamerican Art

Peterson, Jeanette Favrot

Green, Judith Strupp

168 pages. 100 color photographs. Foreword by Martha Longenecker, Director. Prologue by Shaker Scholar June Sprigg. Commentary by William Thrasher, Guest Curator. 
From our previous exhibition,KINDRED SPIRTIS -- The Eloquence of Function in American Shaker and Japanese Arts of Daily Life. Guest-curated by William Thrasher. This exhibition was based on a major loan from Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Other objects in the exhibition were from The Art Complex Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Fruitlands Museums, Kitamaesen Museum and the Kaga City Board of Education, Mingei International Museum, Mingeikan, Tokyo, The Peabody Essex Museum, The Western Reserve Historical Society and Library and private collections. 
This exhibition revealed the extraordinary similarities within two contrasting cultures. They share standards of excellence in making objects for daily use, resulting from skilled and sensitive use of natural materials, and a reverence for the work of human hands. Kindred Spirits brought together for the first time a broad spectrum of American Shaker and Japanese crafts representing rich regional traditions. The exhibition featured approximately 200 of the finest objects used in American Shaker and Japanese daily life -- furniture, textiles, baskets, tools, and domestic utensils made of wood, metal, paper, lacquer, and natural fibers.

Kindred Spirits: The Eloquence of Function in American Shaker and Japanese Arts of Daily Life

Sprigg, June

Longenecker, Martha W.

Thrasher, William

300 pages. 185 color photographs by Lynton Gardiner with selected photographs courtesy of Tohoku Fukushi University, Serizawa, Keisuke Art &amp; Craft Museum and Nihon Mingeikan, Tokyo Commentary by Martha W. Longenecker, Founding President and Director Emerita, Mingei International Museum, excerpts from Mingei Movement and I by Sori Yanagi and The Way of Tea by Dr. Soetsu Yanagi. Foreword by Teiko Utsumi.

Mingei of Japan: The Legacy of the Founders: Shoji Hamada - Kanjiro Kawai - Soetsu Yanagi

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