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BOOK
WABI SABI FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, POETS ANDPHILOSOPHERS: LEONARD KOREN
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IT’S ABOUT BEAUTY
THE BEAUTY OF THINGS MODEST AND HUMBLE
THE BEAUTY OF THE UNCONVENTIONAL
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FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
HOW TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL THINGS WITHOUT GETTINGCAUGHT UP IN THE DISPIRITING MATERIALISM THAT
USUALLY SURROUNDS [CREATIVE] ACTS - AN ANTIDOTETO THE PERVASIVELY SLICK, SACCHARINE, CORPORATESTYLE OF BEAUTY.
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HISTORY
THE BOOK OF TEA BY OKAKURA KAKUZO (1906)(AVAILABLE ON PROJECT GUTENBERG) ALSO HERE:
HTTP://WWW.SACRED-TEXTS.COM/BUD/TEA.HTM
HOW TEA AND THE CEREMONY OF DRINKING TEA HASAFFECTED NEARLY EVERY ASPECT OF JAPANESE
CULTURE
THE C ONTRIBUTION OF SIMPLICITY TO BEAUTY
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LITERAL DEFINITION
WABI SABI IS DIFFICULT TO TRANSLATEROUGHLY MEANS RUSTIC
WABI: LIVING AWAY FROM SOCIETY AND ALONE WITH NATURE
SABI: CHILL, LEAN, WITHERED
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DEFINITIONS
Wabi refers to Sabi refers to
A spiritual path Material objects
The inward/subjective The outward/objective
A philosophical construct An aesthetic ideal
Spacial events Temporal events
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COMPARISON TO MODERNISM
MODERNISM:
THE DOMINANT AESTHETIC SENSIBILITY OF MID TO LATE
20TH CENTURY INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIALISED
SOCIETY
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SIMILARITIES
BOTH APPLY TO ALL MANNER OF MANMADE OBJECTS,
SPACES AND DESIGNS
BOTH ARE STRONG REACTIONS AGAINST THEDOMINANT, ESTABLISHED SENSIBILITIES OF THEIR TIME
MODERNISM REACTED AGAINST 19TH CENTURYCLASSICISM AND ECLECTICISM
WABI SABI REACTED AGAINST CHINESE PERFECTION ANDGORGEOUSNESS OF 16TH CENTURY
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SIMILARITIES (CONT.)
BOTH ESCHEW ANY DECORATION THAT IS NOT INTEGRAL TO STRUCTURE
BOTH ARE ABSTRACT, NON-REPRESENTATIONAL IDEALSOF BEAUTY
BOTH HAVE READILY IDENTIFIABLE SURFACE
CHARACTERISTICS. MODERNISM IS SEAMLESS,POLISHED AND SMOOTH. WABI SABI IS EARTHY,IMPERFECT, VARIEGATED.
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DIFFERENCES
MODERNISM WABI SABI
Primarily public domain Private Domain
Logical, rational world view Intuitive worldview
Absolute Relative
Universal solutions/massroduced
One of a kind/varible
Faith in progress There is no progress
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DIFFERENCES CONTINUED
MODERNISM WABI SABI
Recognises technology Recognises nature
People adapt to machines People adapt to nature
Geometric Organic
The Box The Bowl
Man made Natural
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DIFFERENCES CONTINUED
MODERNISM WABI-SABI
Slick Crude
Needs to be well maintained Accommodates degradation
Purity adds to richness corrosion adds to richness
Cool Warm
Everlasting To everything there is a season
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WABI SABI UNIVERSE
THINGS ARE EITHER DEVOLVING TOWARDS OR EVOLVINGFROM NOTHINGNESS
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SPIRITUAL VALUES
TRUTH COMES FROM THE OBSERVATION OF NATURE
GREATNESS EXISTS IN THE INCONSPICUOUS ANDOVERLOOKED DETAILS
BEAUTY CAN BE COAXED OUT OF UGLYNESS
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STATE OF MIND
ACCEPTANCE OF THE INEVITABLE
APPRECIATION OF THE COSMIC ORDER
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MORAL PRECEPTS
GET RID OF ALL THAT IS UNNECESSARY
FOCUS ON THE INTRINSIC AND IGNORE MATERIAL HIERARCHY
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MATERIAL QUALITY
THE SUGGESTION OF A NATURAL PROCESS
IRREGULAR
INTEMATE
UNPRETENTIOUS
EARTHY
MURKY
SIMPLE
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ON PERMANENCE:
ALL THINGS ARE IMPERMANENT. THE INCLINATIONTOWARD NOTHINGNESS IS UNRELENTING ANDUNIVERSAL. EVEN THINGS THAT HAVE ALL THEEARMARKS OF SUBSTANCE – HARD, INERT, SOLID
PRESENT NOTHING MORE THAN THE ILLUSION OF
PERMANENCE
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ON BEAUTY:
BEAUTY CAN BE COAXED OUT OF UGLINESS. WABI SABI
SUGGESTS THAT BEAUTY IS A DYNAMIC EVENT THAT OCCURS BETWEEN YOU AND SOMETHING ELSE. BEAUTYCAN SPONTANEOUSLY OCCUR AT ANY MOMENT GIVENTHE PROPER CIRCUMSTANCES, CONTEXT, OR POINT OF
VIEW. BEAUTY IS THUS AN ALTERED STATE OF
CONSCIOUSNESS, AN EXTRORDINARY MOMENT OF POETRY AND GRACE.
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ON DECAY:
THE CLOSER THINGS GET TO NONEXISTENCE, THE MOREEXQUISITE AND EVOCATIVE THEY BECOME.
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ON COMPLETENESS
ALL THINGS ARE INCOMPLETE. INCLUDING THE
UNIVERSE, EVERYTHING IS IN A CONSTANT, NEVER
ENDING STATE OF BECOMING OR DISSOLVING
WHEN DOES SOMETHING’S DESTINY FINALLY COME TOFRUITION? IS THE PLANT COMPLETE WHEN IT FLOWERS?WHEN IT GOES TO SEED? WHEN THE SEED SPROUTS?
WHEN EVERYTHING TURNS TO COMPOST? THE NOTIONOF COMPLETION HAS NO BASIS IN WABI-SABI.
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