Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers: For Artists, Designers, Poets and Designers

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Leonard Koren

Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

For Artists, Designers, Poets and Designers

Leonard Koren

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Imperfect Publishing
03 November 2008

Art & Architecture; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Cultural studies

This is an updated version of the enduring classic that first introduced the concept of ""imperfect beauty"" to the West. Text, images, and book design seamlessly meld into a wabi-sabi-like experience.

""Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete . . .

. . . wabi-sabi could even be called the ""Zen of things,"" as it exemplifies many of Zen's core spiritual-philosophical tenets . . . Wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty. It occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West . . . Wabi-sabi, in its purest, most idealized form, is precisely about the delicate traces, the faint evidence, at the borders of nothingness . . .""

By: Leonard Koren
Imprint: Imperfect Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 198g
ISBN: 9780981484600
ISBN 10: 0981484603
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 03 November 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leonard Koren, trained as an artist and architect, writes books about design and aesthetics.