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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
Donald Richie
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Description for A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
Paperback. Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 176 x 6. Weight in Grams: 84.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Berkeley CA, United States
ISBN
9781933330235
SKU
V9781933330235
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99-3
About Donald Richie
Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews. He is widely admired for his incisive film studies on Ozu and Kurosawa, and for his stylish and incisive observations on Japanese culture.
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