Unknown Craftsman The: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty
Bernard Leach author Soetsu Yanagi author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Kodansha America, Inc
Published:15th Jul '13
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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'
"Yanagi pinpoints qualities of 'true' beauty with an authority that hardly allows us to differ. As does Solzhenitsyn, he feels that beauty is a real entity and not different from truth." —Craft Horizons
"This book is a quiet manifesto for the preservation and enhancement of crafts." —Washington Post
ISBN: 9781568365206
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 657g
232 pages