[DOWNLOAD] Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend

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Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend
Sinopsis :
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with
lacquer mixed with a precious metal, usually gold, silver or
platinum. The technique celebrates the history of the object
and, rather than disguising a repair, highlights it and makes it
beautiful. Kintsugi has come to the West, where it found fertile
ground through its kinship with the current trend of 'make do
and mend', as well as for its lyrical metaphoric loading, which
has been used in areas such as psychology and therapy, wellbeing,
music, and emotional healing and spirituality. It is also
being presented as a model for sustainability.This book
explains what traditional kintsugi is and how it is done, giving
historical examples and using interviews of traditional kintsugi
masters in Japan. It reflects on the possible reasons for its
development, looking especially at a cultural attitude of

creativity through destruction. Different kinds of repairs will be
discussed, including the earlier staple repair often seen in
Chinese ceramic wares and the development of yobitsugi, in
which shards from different vessels are pieced together in a
patchwork, and other kintsugi techniques.The underlying
concept of kintsugi, which encompasses the wabi aesthetic of
accepting the imperfect, has struck a chord in other fields such
as fine art, textiles, graphics, and product design. The
metaphoric richness of a broken pot made stronger and more
beautiful is both universal and deeply personal. The book will
discuss how this is being used in music and literature, with the
inclusion of short works of fiction and/or poetry separating the
chapters. There have been recent ceramic exhibitions with a
kintsugi theme, including Golden Seams at the Smithsonian's
Freer Gallery in Washington DC. Other exhibitions outside of
ceramics that have had a kintsugi theme include a
photography and installation piece by Koo Stark at the Leica
Gallery, London. An example of its metaphoric application can
be seen in the Radio 4 programme, 'Mending Cracks of Gold'
(part of the series Something Understood, which presents
'ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the
larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it
through music, prose and poetry'), for which Bonnie was a
contributor. There have been two TED Talks about kintsugi.