In Praise of Shadows - Junichiro Tanizaki

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In Praise of Shadows - Junichiro TanizakiThis is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure. The essay forms a classic description of the collision between the shadows of traditional Japanese interiors and the dazzling light of the modern

170mm x 220mm

The result is a striking document of the entanglement of art and life and an intimate view into the New York art scene of the 1970s

these three forms might illuminate and inform one another

229mm x 152mm

the suburbs and “to making insignificant places significant

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The cordon sanitaire of disengagement risks expanding beyond all proportion

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