A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese
Full description- Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
- Published: 30 November 2007
- Format: Paperback 80 pages
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- Categories: General | Art Theory | Art History | Oriental Art | Film Theory & Criticism | Asian History | Philosophy: Aesthetics
- ISBN 13: 9781933330235 ISBN 10: 1933330236
- Sales rank: 62,754
Full description for A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
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.
