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When i read "In the Praise of Shadow" Jun'ichiro got up set that his favroite resturant change from candle light to electricity and he explain his experience with the lacquerware in the candlelight. When he does this i realise that thing are design for human experience. I personally have not eaten out of an authentic lacquerware be now i want to.
In the hand word/ machine work i think he saying that hand made art is not aperciated today as it as it used to be. Now because of machine can produce the same things it cant be uquie.
Reading this two passage made me thing of hand made designs and the past and how things were made and use. The future will all this go away or will we adapt and design more.
Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro (1977). In praise of shadows.(T.J. Harper and E.G. Seidensticker, trans.) Sedgwich, ME: Leete's Island Books, Inc. (original work published in 1933).
Frank, Isabelle (editor) (200). The theory of decorative art: An anthology of European and American writings 1750-1940. New York: Yale University Press
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