Kindred Spirits.June Sprigg, et al. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Illus., 168 pp., hardcover, $40.00. Subtitled sub·ti·tle n. 1. A secondary, usually explanatory title, as of a literary work. 2. A printed translation of the dialogue of a foreign-language film shown at the bottom of the screen. tr.v. "The Eloquence Eloquence Ambrose, St. bees, prophetic of fluency, landed in his mouth. [Christian Hagiog: Brewster, 177] Antony, Mark gives famous speech against Caesar’s assassins. [Br. Lit. of Function in American Shaker Shaker Member of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, a celibate millenarian sect. Derived from a branch of the radical English Quakers (see Society of Friends), the movement was brought to the U.S. and Japanese Arts Japanese art, works of art created in the islands that make up the nation of Japan. Early Works The earliest art of Japan, probably dating from the 3d and 2d millennia B.C. Daily Life," this book documents the similarity of insights into beauty and craft of two distinctly different peoples; a small utopian society that now consists of a single community in Maine, and the history of an entire people over thousands of years. in both instances, we find restraint, simplicity, utility, order and excellence. A brief text contains comments by the exhibition's curator and an expert on each of the two areas, while the objects illustrated speak for themselves. More than 100 utilitarian objects, half American Shaker and half of Japanese origin, are featured in rich, full color accompanied by brief descriptions. Full-page photographs of objects made because people needed them--pails, chests, teapots, brooms, cricket cages, baskets--help the reader to understand two other cultures and the forms they valued. A worthwhile addition to personal or school libraries for examples of a craft aesthetic that views ornament ornament, in architecture ornament, in architecture, decorative detail enhancing structures. Structural ornament, an integral part of the framework, includes the shaping and placement of the buttress, cornice, molding, ceiling, and roof and the capital and as superfluous but form and craft as spiritual. |
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