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Unknown Craftsman The: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty

ISBN-13: 9781568365206

Contributor(s): Soetsu Yanagi (author), Bernard Leach (author)

Subjects: Oriental Art

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Kodansha Books

Publication Date: 15-07-2013

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£35.00

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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 traditional Japanese appreciation for objects born, not made.' Mr. 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'

Unknown Craftsman The: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty

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