THE UNKNOWN CRAFTSMAN

Craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi was the first to fully explore the traditional Japanese appreciati on for objects born, not made.' Mr. Yanagi sees folk art as a manifestation of the essential world from which art, philosophy, and r eligion arise and in which the barriers between them disappear. The implications of the author's ideas are both far-reaching and pra ctical