Mingei
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mingei-169-5785948
title:
Mingei
text:
mingei The concept of mingei (民芸), variously translated into English as "folk craft", "folk art" or "popular art", was developed from the mid-1920s in Japan by a philosopher and aesthete, Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), together with a group of craftsmen, including the potters Hamada Shōji (1894–1978) and Kawai Kanjirō (1890–1966). As such, it was a conscious attempt to distinguish ordinary crafts and functional utensils from "higher" forms of art – at the time much admired by people during a period
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Philosophy on Japanese folk art
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingei
date created:
2006-07-25T18:55:01Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T11:56:25Z
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