In Praise of Shadows
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Word Count
14,000 words, Guess
Page Count
56 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveinpraiseofshadow0000tani_o5j5
- Internet Archivepraiseshadows00tani
- ISBN-139780918172020
- ISBN-100918172020
- LibraryThing61431
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- Library of Congress Control Number77075035
- OCLC Control Number3379869
- OCLC Control Number564625003
- Better World Books9780918172020
- Open LibraryOL8340612M
Classifications
- LCCPL839.A7 A25 1977
- LCCPL839.A7
Description
"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
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