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...made a contribution to Japanese culture that has far outlasted the conquests of his triumphant predecessors. So argues Donald Keene, the distinguished American scholar and leading interpreter of Japanese civilization, in his elegant, incisive new biography, Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan. The arts in 15th century Japan were (with a few exceptions such as Noh drama) self-conscious imitations of the cultural achievements of China. Keene painstakingly builds the case that much of the aesthetic sensibility that modern Japanese people now think of as being especially Japanese can be traced to the exquisite...
...innovations of the Silver Pavilion was the central importance of its gardens, a design approach that became basic to Japanese architecture. Gardens had always held an important place in the nation's soul, as we know from The Tale of Genji and other early court fiction of the Heian period. At that time, however, gardens were seasonal, emphasizing spring and autumn to illustrate the perishability of beauty, the concept of the "pity of things." In Yoshimasa's era, however, gardens moved toward a Zen aesthetic, becoming more serene places of contemplation that favored the use of symbols of eternity such...
...artist himself. At an opening-night gala, Schnabel complained that "there are so few people interested in art that it's our responsibility to talk it up." He protested that "painting is not Internet friendly. But painting will hold together long after your computers are broken, because of its soul." And he announced, "This is a jungle painting," standing in front of Apathy, an immense 8-m by 6-m work showing a skeletal centaur-like figure leaping across a grease-streaked backdrop. "I was in the Mexican jungle in 1986 and I came across a truck with this...
...Agnes three years ago, and she taught me the concept of the Vagina Warrior,” she says. “Agnes was genitally mutilated when she was a little girl. Her vagina was ripped open, but so was her soul. She said she was going to put a stop to this, so she walked through the Rift Valley in Kenya carrying a plastic model of a woman’s torso with removable vagina pieces, teaching boys and girls about genital mutilation...
...Your soul...