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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie 80 pp, 5” x 7”, paper, |
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In this new treatise on beauty in Japanese art, 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. Written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” wherever it leads. Donald Richie is the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English, and this work is the culmination of 60 years of observing and writing from his home in Tokyo. |
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| Other titles of interest
Wabi Sabi by Leonard Koren The Art of Setting Stones by Mark Peter Keane The Donald Richie Reader edited and with an introduction by Arturo Silva The Japan Journals by Donald Richie, edited by Leza Lowitz The Inland Sea by Donald Richie |