JB Blunk - Edition 4

JB Blunk (Edition 4), 2024

The fourth edition of the best-selling monograph on JB Blunk features a fresh cover design and new artwork. This comprehensive volume explores the artist’s diverse practice, showcasing never-before-seen archival material and newly commissioned photographs of his jewellery, ceramics, paintings, furniture, sculpture, and hand-built home.

Essays by Lucy Lippard, Glenn Adamson, Fariba Bogzaran, Louise Allison Cort, and René Bustamante contextualize Blunk’s work within his materials, environment, and contemporaries. Highlights include reflections on Blunk’s transformative experiences in Japan and Northern California, as well as interviews spanning forty years that provide a deep insight into his creative process.

“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.” —Glenn Adamson

Edited by Mariah Nielson and Åbäke, co-published by Blunk Books and Dent-De-Leone, and printed by die Keure, this beautifully designed book is an essential addition to any art lover’s collection.