Louise Allison Cort
Curator for Ceramics
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
Email: cortlo at si.edu
Research Interests
Historical and contemporary ceramics
of Japan, Southeast Asia, and South Asia; Japanese textiles; Japanese baskets;
other craft traditions of Japan, Southeast Asia and South Asia
Current Research Projects
Preparing catalogues of Kyoto-centered and southern Japanese ceramics in the Freer Gallery of Art collection
Cataloguing ceramics from Southeast Asia in the Sackler Gallery collection
Current or Projected Exhibits
Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics (Sackler Gallery, 2003)
Recent Publications and Catalogs
Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth (co-authored
with Bert Winther-Tamaki) (Washington DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution, in association with University of California Press, Berkeley, Los
Angeles, and London, 2003)
"Shopping for Pots in Momoyama Japan," in Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice, ed. Morgan Pitelka (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003)
“A Preliminary Cultural Geography of Contemporary Village-based Earthenware Production in Mainland Southeast Asia,” with Leedom Lefferts, in Earthenware in Southeast Asia, ed. by John Miksic (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003).
Updated -12/27/07
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