I really enjoyed the lecture by Amanda Adams on Japanese Aesthetics. Here are some of my notes (commentary after):
Western very different - Kant, German, enlightenment, critique of judgement quantify beauty - Objective
Tanizaki - 1933,
Main takeaways: i really appreciated her comparison between Western and Japanese standards of beauty. I feel like I relate more or appreciate more the Japanese criteria as it is focused on the beauty in imperfection and seems much more of a deep understanding. I also really enjoyed learning about In Praise of Shadows and Tanizaki. I thought the shift between Japanese isolationism to favoring the West and then back to nationalistic and what makes Japan special is very interesting. I also thought her mention of the impact of religion was interesting. I studied Zen Buddhism in religions class last year, and I do feel like it could influence my work. I also thought it was kind of funny how important shadows are to Tanizaki and the beauty of impermanence as that's actually a theme I've thought to explore in my work regarding the impermanence of childhood and what's left or the shadows instead of the thing itself.
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