Description
| Product ID: | 9781933330235 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics |
| Authors: | Author: Donald Richie |
| Page Count: | 80 |
| Subjects: | Theory of art, Theory of art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Japan |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Stone Bridge Press |
| Publisher Name: | Stone Bridge Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-07-19 |