Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
by:
Leonard Koren (author)
An updated version of the seminal 1994 classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
An updated version of the seminal 1994 classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780981484600 (0981484603)
Publish date: November 1st 2008
Publisher: Imperfect Publishing
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Cultural,
Art,
Philosophy,
Poetry,
Spirituality,
Japan,
Design,
Art Design,
Eastern Philosophy
Koren wastes no time in this concise text, briefly tracing the roots of wabi-sabi, the history of its obfuscation, and then laying out its qualities and principles with maximum clarity. Beautiful photographs accompany the delicately printed text and Koren provides an illuminating comparison with mod...
The irony of trying to say something categorical about wabi-sabi isn't lost on this author. As a Western, modernist, taxonomically-driven type, I appreciated it, however antithetical it may be to the essence of wabi-sabi. Generally enjoyable as a pensee or exercise. It ends rather suddenly, which I ...
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