Kakuzō Okakura’s Ideals of the East is less a museum catalogue than an historical perspective of the Japanese personality: a compact, ardent defence of Japanese (and broadly East Asian) aesthetic sensibility written for an age when the West still presumed to be the arbiter of modern taste. The book reads simultaneously as cultural criticism, philosophical … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Ideals of the East: The Spirit of Japanese Art by Kakuzō Okakura
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