Unknown Craftsmen, The: Japanese Insight into Beauty by Soetsu Yanagi

Unknown Craftsmen, The: Japanese Insight into Beauty by Soetsu Yanagi

The founder of the folkcraft movement in Japan, Soetsu Yanagi, examines Japanese folk art as a manifestation of the essential world from which art, philosophy and religion arise, and in which the barriers between them disappear. This book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous 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

Soetsu Yanagi was a philosopher, art historian, aesthete, and poet who lived from 1889 to 1961. He developed a theory for why certain unknown craftsmen's goods were so beautiful, and he became the founder of the Japanese folk crafts (mingei) movement. He was the first director of the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum, which he helped build.

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ISBN 13	9780870119484
ISBN 10	0870119486
Titre	Unknown Craftsmen, The: Japanese Insight into Beauty
Auteur	Soetsu Yanagi
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Kodansha America, Inc
Année de publication	1978-07-01
Nombre de pages	232
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