A tractate on Japanese aesthetics / Donald Richie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richie, Donald, 1924-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Japan.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (81 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Stone Bridge Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 class and taste. He explains aesthetic concepts like wabi, sabi, aware, and yugen, and ponders their relevance in art and cinema today.

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface 11; THE TRACTATE 15; Glossary 71; Bibliography 74

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-79).

ISBN:

9780893469740

0893469742

OCLC:

729166450