| Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics Contributor(s): Richie, Donald (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933330236 ISBN-13: 9781933330235 Publisher: Stone Bridge Press OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: 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. Donald Richie is the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English, and this work is the culmination of sixty years of observing and writing from his home in Tokyo. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | Asian - Japanese |
| Dewey: 111.850 |
| LCCN: 2007017228 |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.45" W x 7.09" (0.18 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Donald Richie is the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English, and this work is the culmination of sixty years of observing and writing from his home in Tokyo. |