{"id":214,"date":"2014-09-02T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T13:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/?p=214"},"modified":"2015-01-16T14:20:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T14:20:42","slug":"shibusa-extracting-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Shibusa: extracting beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"color: #625454;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shibusa_book_cover_pip_dickens1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-216 size-large alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shibusa_book_cover_pip_dickens1-287x395.png\" alt=\"shibusa_book_cover_pip_dickens\" width=\"287\" height=\"395\"><\/a>Shibusa \u2013 Extracting Beauty celebrates a&nbsp;number of artistic endeavours: music, painting and the skill of making in general with particular reflection upon Japanese aesthetics.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #625454;\">Composer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hud.ac.uk\/ourstaff\/profile\/index.php?staffuid=smusma2\">Professor Monty Adkins<\/a> and visual artist, Pip Dickens (through a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leverhulme.ac.uk\/news\/news_item.cfm\/newsid\/43\/newsid\/140\">Leverhulme Trust Award collaboration<\/a>) investigate commonality and difference between the visual arts and music exploring aspects of rhythm, pattern, colour and vibration as well as outlining processes utilised to evolve new works within these practices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #625454;\">The hand-cut paper Katagami stencil: a&nbsp;beautiful utilitarian object once used to apply decoration on to Japanese kimonos, is used as a&nbsp;poignant symbol \u2013 the \u2018hand-made machine\u2019 \u2014 by Adkins and Dickens both within the production of paintings and sound compositions and as a&nbsp;thematic link throughout the&nbsp;book.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_940\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-940\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-940\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-425x428.jpg\" alt=\"Kan No Uchi (The Cold Time), Shibusa series, Copyright Pip Dickens\" width=\"425\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-425x428.jpg 425w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-202x203.jpg 202w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-300x301.jpg 300w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-700x703.jpg 700w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-32x32.jpg 32w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-96x96.jpg 96w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-128x128.jpg 128w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi-120x120.jpg 120w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kan-No-Uchi.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kan No Uchi (The Cold Time), Shibusa series, Copyright Pip Dickens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The book reviews examples of a&nbsp;number of contemporary British artists (Bridget Riley, Estelle Thompson, Liz Rideal and Paddy Hartley) and Japanese craftspeople and their individual approaches to \u2018making things well\u2019. It explores the balance between hand skills and technology within a&nbsp;work\u2019s production with particular reference to Richard Sennett\u2019s review of material culture in The Craftsman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #625454;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.store.hud.ac.uk\/browse\/extra_info.asp?modid=1&amp;prodid=847&amp;deptid=168&amp;compid=1&amp;prodvarid=0&amp;catid=26\">Shibusa \u2013 Extracting Beauty<\/a> includes contributing essays by arts writer, Roy Exley, who examines convergence and crossover within the arts and an in-depth history, and review, of the kimono making industry by Kyoto designer, Makoto&nbsp;Mori.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shibusa \u2013 Extracting Beauty celebrates a&nbsp;number of artistic endeavours: music, painting and the skill of making in general with particular reflection upon Japanese aesthetics. 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