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.
- ISBN10 0893469742
- ISBN13 9780893469740
- Publish Date 1 February 2009 (first published 19 July 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stone Bridge Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 80
- Language English