Unknown Craftsman The: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty Paperback / softback
by Soetsu Yanagi, Bernard Leach
Paperback / softback
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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'
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Kodansha America, Inc
- Publication Date:21/06/2013
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- ISBN:9781568365206
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Kodansha America, Inc
- Publication Date:21/06/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781568365206