Wabi Sabi For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
An elegant primer on the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, celebrating beauty in impermanence, imperfection, and incompleteness. It traces roots in Zen and the tea ceremony, contrasts these values with Western ideals of permanence and symmetry, and distills them into clear principles for creative practice. Through succinct definitions, images, and examples, it offers guidance on embracing simplicity, asymmetry, patina, and empty space to cultivate authenticity and quiet restraint in art, design, and everyday life.
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- Published
- 1994
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 90-100
- Original Language
- English
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