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Details
Publish Date
7/1/07
# of Pages
80
Dimensions
5 x 6.8"
Price (Print/Ebook)
$9.95/$7.95
PISBN
9781933330235
EISBN
9780893469740
A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of 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.
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