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Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers (Paperback)

by Leonard Koren (Author)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Stone Bridge Press (1 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1880656124
  • ISBN-13: 978-1880656129
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 200,947 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'The most interesting short book on aesthetics I've read for a long time...' Financial Times, Saturday 12 January --Financial Times, Saturday 12 January


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An extended illustrated essay on the quintessential Japanese aestethic of imperfect and impermanent beauty. "Wabi-sabi" is presented as a protypical "complete" aesthetic, nature based and "soft" in contrast to the "hard" digital aesthetics of modern computer-age design.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A masterful guide to the "anti-Western" aesthetic., 11 Jun 2001
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So simple--the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete--yet so powerful. A wonderful antidote to the classical Western aesthetic of things massive, enduring, gorgeous, and slick. This book has helped clarify and fine tune my thinking about the various modes of beauty in architecture, my profession.
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5.0 out of 5 stars simple and great, 23 Sep 2009
By Aleksander Pieri "Alexande_Involver" (Croatia) - See all my reviews
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a very compact book with essential things to think about and to consider when you create something in design, paintings etc... It is always with me that book and im glad I buy this
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simple things, 28 Jul 2004
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While this book did not offer anything remarkably new to me, its message is delivered in a way that is different to the majority. As a Zen Buddhist I feel it deserves a place in every Buddhist's library because of its refreshing approach to these familiar topics.
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