A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics Paperback / softback
by Donald Richie
Paperback / softback
Description
This provocative book is a tractate-a treatise-on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that "follow the brush" wherever it leads.
Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by elegant expressions of class and taste.
He explains aesthetic concepts like wabi, sabi, aware, and yugen, and ponders their relevance in art and cinema today.
Donald Richie is the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English, and this work is the culmination of sixty years of observing and writing from his home in Tokyo.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:80 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date:19/07/2007
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- ISBN:9781933330235
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:80 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Stone Bridge Press
- Publication Date:19/07/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781933330235