Unknown Craftsman A Japanese Insight into Beauty

Name: Unknown Craftsman A Japanese Insight into Beauty
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ISBN: 9781568365206

ISBN-10: 1568365209

ISBN-13: 9781568365206

Edition: 2013

Authors: Soetsu Yanagi, Bernard Leach

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craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi was the first to fully explore the traditional Japanese appreciation for "objects born, not made."Mr. Yanagi sees folk art as a manifestation of the essential world from which art, philosophy, and religion arise and in which the barriers between them disappear. The implications of the author's ideas are both far-reaching and practical.Soetsu Yanagi is often mentioned in books on Japanese art, but this is the first translation in any Western language of a selection of his major writings. The late…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Kodansha America, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English