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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

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Richie, Donald

Pap. Berkeley, 2007

Book ID: 73754

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. Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and modified by elegant expressions of class and taste. He explains concepts like, wabi, sabi, aware, and yungen, exploring their relevance in art, culture and society today.

80 pp.