The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Soetsu Yanagi, Bernard Leach (Adapted by)Publish date:2013-06-21Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:Kodansha InternationalISBN-13:9781568365206ISBN-10:1568365209UPC:9781568365206Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Asian, Folk & Outsider ArtBook Topic:JapaneseSize:9.40 x 7.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCWD9ZBTA1
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
This book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous 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,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Kodansha InternationalISBN-13:9781568365206ISBN-10:1568365209UPC:9781568365206Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Asian, Folk & Outsider ArtBook Topic:JapaneseSize:9.40 x 7.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCWD9ZBTA1
S?ETSU YANAGI was born in Tokyo in 1889 and graduated from the literature department of the Tokyo Imperial University in 1913, majoring in psychology. Proficient in English and with a deep feeling for art, while still a student Mr. Yanagi became associated with the Shirakaba ("Silver Birch") literary group, to which he was partly responsible for interpreting Western art to Japan. In 1921, he...
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