In the teacup Strangely enough humanity has so far met in the teacup. Okakura Kakuzō, The Book of Tea teahumanity
The most incidental detail Black rakuware tea bowl (late sixteenth century), Kyoto, Japan. Freer Sackler Museum of Asian Art. For Irwin, the lesson of [the raku tea cups] was twofold: first, their presentation was important, insofar as the ceremony involved a gradual preparation of the audience's aesthetic attention. Then, when the time came to handle the cups, the intimacy of the experience fused visual and tactile sensations into a single continuum. As he also noted: he would set on the table this box with a beautiful little tie on it – very Japanese – and you untied it, you opened up the box, he let you do that. And then inside of it was a cloth sack. You took the sack out, and it had a drawstring, and you opened up the drawstring and you reached inside and took out the bowl. By that time, the bowl had you at a level where the most incidental detail – maybe even just a thumb mark – registered as a powerful statement. Robert Irwin, Robert Irwin: A Conditional Art zenwabi-sabiritualteaattention
The Book of Tea A Book by Okakura Kakuzō In the teacupThe greatness of little thingsThe reality of the buildingWhat a tempest in a teacup!To bring out its noblest qualities+19 More tea
Results of a search This book presents results of a search, not of what is academically called research. In addition to the dedication of this book, I should like to state that my students in color have taught me more color than have books about color. Josef Albers, Interaction of Color A Search for Structure teaching