Authors

Cindy Ho reconstructed the Quentin Roosevelt collection and conceived the idea for “”Quantin Roosevelt’s China: Ancestral Realms of the Naxi”” in 1993. She identified the

Born in 1948, he studied art history, archaeology and history at the University of Munich and took his Ph.D. in 1976. Subsequently trainee at the

Born in 1927, Yoshiaki Inui graduated from and became professor emeritus at Kyoto University. Known as the leading researcher in the field of contemporary ceramics

As keeper of the Asia Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Anna Jackson looks after its extensive collection of Japanese textiles and

HANS-PETER JAKOBSON was born 1947 in Wittenberge (Prignitz, DE). Studied cultural sciences and the history of art at Humboldt University in Berlin (DE). Director of

is an independent curator. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and the University of California at Davis, she had

Born in Berlin, where she was trained as a goldsmith, she has been living in London for more than twenty years. She obtained her MA

Art historian, 1977 – 2004 research assistant, 2004 – 2011 director of the Theodor-Zink-Museum, Kaiserslautern. Exhibitions and publications about contemporary craft. Email: marlene.jochem@t-online.de Homepage: www.theodor-zink-museum.de

Espen Johnsen is Associate Professor of the history of architecture and design at the department of Art History at the University of Oslo. He has

Curator at The Röhsska Museum for Fashion, Design and Decorative Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden. His articles, essays and reviews on contemporary crafts have appeared in

1958-1962 Training as goldsmith and silversmith Freelance since 1970 Works in museums and public collections: Berlin, Frankfurt, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich, Hildesheim, Antwerp Awards: 1972 Promotion

has been Curator of Collections at the James A. Michener Art Museum since 2001, where she was curator of the 2004 retrospective of the work