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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

By Donald Richie

Book information

Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Year
2007
ISBN
1933330236, 9781933330235
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
287 kB (294005 bytes)
Pages
80\81
Time added
2022-06-06 09:27:05

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. CONTENTS Preface 11 THE TRACTATE 15 Glossary 71 Bibliography 74

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