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(★)([普及版]柳宗悦評論集)(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 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 mentioned in books on Japanese art, but this is the first translation in any Western language of a selection of his major writings. The late Bernard Leach, renowned British potter and friend of Mr. Yanagi for fifty years, has clearly transmitted the insights of one of Japan´s most important thinkers. The seventy-six plates illustrate objects that underscore the universality of his concepts. The author´s profound view of the creative process and his plea for a new artistic freedom within tradition are especially timely now when the importance of craft and the handmade object is being rediscovered./ ▼CONTENTS/ Towards a Standard of Beauty/Seeing and Knowing/Pattern/The Beauty of Irregularity/The Buddhist Idea of Beauty/Crafts of Okinawa/Hakeme/The Way of Tea/The Kizaemon Tea-bowl/The Way of Craftsmanship/The Responsibility of the Craftsman/) |