Unknown Craftsman The: A Japanese Insight Into Beauty: A Japanese Insight into Beauty

by Soetsu Yanagi and Bernard Leach

Bernard Leach

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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'
  • ISBN10 1568365209
  • ISBN13 9781568365206
  • Publish Date 21 June 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Kodansha America, Inc