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Lob des Schattens. Entwurf einer japanischen Ästhetik by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki; Eduard Klopfenstein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Lob des Schattens. Entwurf einer japanischen Ästhetik about?

"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

Who reads Lob des Schattens. Entwurf einer japanischen Ästhetik?

Author

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki; Eduard Klopfenstein

Publisher

Manesse Verlag GmbH, c/o Erich Kalt

Published

1990

Language

DE

ISBN

9783717581093

Category

nonfiction