Thursday, May 14, 2015
A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics #pdf by Donald Richie
Stone Bridge Press | ISBN:1933330236 | File Type: PDF, 79 pages | File size: 57.Mb | Oct. 1st, 2007
Film History Film Criticism: 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 and taste He explains aesthetic concepts like wabi sabi aware and yugen and ponders their relevance in art and cinema today Donald Richie is the foremost explorer of Japanese cture in English and this work is the cmination of sixty years of observing and writing from his home in Tokyo
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