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A Floating World: Impermanence and Motion in Japanese Art
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ISBN13: 9783753307145
Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 225
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.87 Width: 7.24 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
A marvelously illustrated volume demonstrating how Japanese art permeates and comments on the changes and uncertainties of existence
Weathered, centuries-old wooden sculptures. A broken tea bowl, repaired with gold lacquer. Hokusai's Great Wave: an archetypal expression of beauty and mortal danger. All these elements are found in A Floating World, accompanying a 2025 exhibition at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. Priceless items held by the museum are complemented by the works of contemporary artists, portraying Japan as a nation that has created a unique aesthetic language of the ephemeral. In a place where earthquakes, tsunamis and human-made catastrophes can snatch away life at any moment, an art flourishes that is in constant awareness of the precious fragility of our existence--in a breathtakingly beautiful, quiet and fascinating celebration of transience. Also in this stunning volume are images depicting human life with and on the water, cherry blossom festivals and courtly butterfly dances.
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