A Tractate On Japanese Aesthetics

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  • Author: Richie, Donald
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    Recorded Books, Inc.

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    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.

    Genre: Art and architecture
    Original Publisher: Berkeley, CA , Stone Bridge Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9780893469740

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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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Art and architecture
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Berkeley, CA

Stone Bridge Press

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