Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts

Twenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with further insights into this seminal aesthetic paradigm. An important book for art and design theorists, and other thoughtful creators. Wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty. It occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West. Wabi-sabi, in its purest, most idealized form, is precisely about the delicate traces, the faint evidence, at the borders of nothingness. Paperback5.6 x 8.5 inches96 pagesImperfect Publishing, 2008 About the Author: Leonard Koren trained as an artist and architect. In 1976 he created “WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing,” an avant-garde publication influential in the development of postmodern aesthetics. Subsequently, Koren has written numerous books including "Wab