@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000237,
 author = {INAGA, Shigemi},
 journal = {Nichibunken Japan review : journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies},
 month = {Jan},
 note = {Yagi Kazuo (1918–1979), an avant-gardrde master of clay work, made his reputation by liberating Japanese potteryry from its traditional constraints. Though he is regardrded as a genius in the world of ceramic artrt, his fame still seems to be confined in the categoryry of “heretic potter” (itan no tokoōkokoō); he is not yet fully recognized as an artrtist in the Western sense of the term. My intention here, however, is not to classify Yagi as one of the leading artrtists of the twentieth centuryry. Rather, it is to show that his clay workrk poses a fundamental question about the veryry notion of fine artrt. His workrk is, I believe, located at the extreme end of the boundaryry where the Western sculpture and Oriental potteryry meet. If modern sculpture expresses itself through the material which is shaped or molded accordrding to the will of its author, traditional potteryry contains a void in its heartrt and the material is accumulated around this void in the equilibrium between the centrifugal forcrce of the wheel and the aggregating nature of the sticky clay. Far from being a master of his own creation, the potter plays the role of mediator between the material and his own hand, and he has to submit the result to the final proof of the fire which is no less whimsical than mystical. Yagi struggled to find the narrow path between the two incompatible value systems. How to reply to the calling to conceptual artrt of autonomous form which must be realized in the future, on the one hand, and at the same time remain faithful to past tradition which was subordrdinated to utilitarian aims, on the other. Once liberated from its primaryry function of container holding the liquid, a vase, for example, begins to exteriorize, through Yagi’s mediation, the potential that until then had been dormant within its interior.},
 pages = {133--159},
 title = {Les Traces d’une blessure créatrice : Yagi Kazuo entre la tradition japonaise et l’avant-garde occidentale},
 volume = {19},
 year = {2007}
}