Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty - Yanagi Soetsu
Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty - Yanagi Soetsu This book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of handwork? What is the value of things made by an…
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Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty - Yanagi Soetsu
This book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of handwork? What is the value of things made by an anonymous craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime?
The late Soetsu Yanagi was the first to fully explore the traditional Japanese appreciation for "objects born, not made."Mr. Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? Yanagi sees folk art as a manifestation of the essential world from which art, philosophy, and religion arise and in which the barriers between them disappear.
The implications of the author's ideas are both far-reaching and practical.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