陰翳礼讃 (In'ei raisan)

谷崎潤一郎 First published 1977

About this book

"This is a powerfully anti-modernist book, yet contains the most beautiful evocation of the traditional Japanese aesthetic, which cast such a spell on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.

"The contradiction is easily explained: Tanizaki sees the empty Japanese wall as not empty at all, but a surface on which light continually traces its fugitive presence against encroaching shadow. He constructs a myth of the origin of the Japanese house: it began with a roof and overhanging eaves, which cast a shadow on the earth, calling forth a shelter."

Read more: http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3159684&origin=BDweeklydigest#ixzz0iOulXDEW

Subjects

895.6/4/4
aesthetics
aesthetics, japanese
architecture
art japonais
asian
civilization
design
design theory
esthétique
general
japanese
japanese aesthetics
literary criticism
pl839.a7 a25 1977