Cloth weaving cloth, clay shaping clay: Toward a religion of beauty (or folkcrafts as a way of dwelling poetically)
Prompted by Heidegger's search for great art in the modern times, this paper looks into crafts as answering the philosopher's frustrated call. Using Soetsu Yanagi's idea of a "religion of beauty," which turns to the ordinary as beautiful, it suggests that crafts - carefully...
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2016
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| Institution: | De La Salle University |
| Summary: | Prompted by Heidegger's search for great art in the modern times, this paper looks into crafts as answering the philosopher's frustrated call. Using Soetsu Yanagi's idea of a "religion of beauty," which turns to the ordinary as beautiful, it suggests that crafts - carefully made by hand while considering its affinity with nature and the human body that uses it - is a way of being, the way Heidegger described the way of "dwelling poetically." Copyright 2012. C & E Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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