A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
By (Author) Donald Richie
Stone Bridge Press
Stone Bridge Press
2nd July 2007
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Philosophy: aesthetics
701.170952
Physical Properties
Paperback
80
Width 127mm, Height 172mm, Spine 7mm
85g
Description
This provocative book is a tractatea treatiseon 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.
Donald Richie is the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English, and this work is the culmination of sixty years of observing and writing from his home in Tokyo.
Author Bio
Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews. He is widely admired for his incisive film studies on Ozu and Kurosawa, and for his stylish and incisive observations on Japanese culture.
