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In Praise of Shadows - Vintage Design Edition (Paperback)
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In Praise of Shadows - Vintage Design Edition (Paperback)
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List price R386
Loot Price R313
Discovery Miles 3 130
You Save R73 (19%)
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A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro
Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find
beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the
light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates...
Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.' This book is in
fact a portal. Reading it, you will be led by Junichiro Tanizaki's
light touch into a mysterious and tranquil world of darkness and
shadows, where gold flashes in the gloom and a deep stillness
reigns. If you are accustomed to equate light with clarity, the
faded with the worthless and the dim with the dreary, prepare for a
courteous but powerful realignment of your ideas. In Praise of
Shadows is a poetic paean to traditional Japanese aesthetics - in a
free-ranging style that moves from architecture to No theatre, and
from cookery to lighting, Tanizaki teaches us to see the beauty in
tarnished metal, the sombre dignity in unglazed pottery, the
primacy of organic materials that bear witness to the regular touch
of human hands. It is also astonishingly prescient, offering a
gentle warning against the quest for airbrushed perfection, and
reminding us that too much light can pollute and obscure our
natural world. In this special edition, the text is accompanied by
specially selected images to complement Tanizaki's reflections and
further illustrate the pattern and beauty of shadows.
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