The founder of the folkcraft movement in Japan, Soetsu Yanagi, examines Japanese folk art as a manifestation of the essential world from which art, philosophy and religion arise, and in which the barriers between them disappear. This book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous 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 ...
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The founder of the folkcraft movement in Japan, Soetsu Yanagi, examines Japanese folk art as a manifestation of the essential world from which art, philosophy and religion arise, and in which the barriers between them disappear. This book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous 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
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Add this copy of The Unknown Craftsman: a Japanese Insight Into Beauty to cart. $22.75, good condition, Sold by Kona Bay Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kailua-Kona, HI, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Kodansha USA.
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Fine. Pbk with French-fold wraps, royal 8vo, 231pp, profusely illsutr throughout in b+w and color, an excellent, clean, tight and unmarked copy, as new.
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VG (minimal shelf wear and discoloration along textblock, all pages clear and intact) Pictorial wraps with red, green and white lettering, 230pp., mostly bw illustrations, some in color. "Soetsu Yanagi is often mentioned in books on Japanese art, but this is the first translation in any Western language of a selection of his major writings. The late Bernard Leach, renowned British potter and friend of Mr. Yanagi for fifty years, has clearly transmitted the insights of one of Japan's most important thinkers. The seventy-six plays illustrate objects that underscore the universality of his concepts. The author's profound view of the creative process and his plea for a new artistic freedom within tradition are especialluy timely now when the importance of craft and the handmade object is bieng rediscovered."-from back of book.
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