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The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty -- Soetsu Yanagi, Paperback
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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 mentioned in books on Japanese art, but this is the first translation in any Western language of a selection of his major writings. The late Bernard Leach, renowned British potter and friend of Mr. Yanagi for fifty years, has clearly transmitted the insights of one of Japan's most important thinkers. The seventy-six plates illustrate objects that underscore the universality of his concepts. The author's profound view of the creative process and his plea for a new artistic freedom within tradition are especially timely now when the importance of craft and the handmade object is being rediscovered.
Author: Soetsu Yanagi, Bernard Leach
Publisher: Kodansha
Published: 06/21/2013
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 7.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781568365206
Author: Soetsu Yanagi, Bernard Leach
Publisher: Kodansha
Published: 06/21/2013
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 7.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781568365206
About the Author
S?ETSU YANAGI was born in Tokyo in 1889 and graduated from the literature department of the Tokyo Imperial University in 1913, majoring in psychology. Proficient in English and with a deep feeling for art, while still a student Mr. Yanagi became associated with the Shirakaba (Silver Birch) literary group, to which he was partly responsible for interpreting Western art to Japan.
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