Bonsai Aesthetic Studies - Antonio Ricchiari

This book, the latest from the writer Antonio Ricchiari, deals with the models of bonsai beauty that, from different traditions, converge in our tradition.

The study of bonsai forms is presented against the backdrop of an original history of the human senses and the progressive disintegration of an ideal of objective beauty applied following past canons.

The development of aesthetics presupposes harmony between the bonsai artist and the reality he lives in, because aesthetic faculties are by their nature essentially destined for the ideal sympathetic representation of the different feelings that characterize the nature of man.

We must prepare people to enjoy the noble pleasures of enjoying beauty when they observe, often distractedly, a bonsai.

From here arose the need and urgency of a study that analyzes the art of bonsai. And it is analyzed by a Western bonsai artist with an artistic culture of a country that has left a deep mark everywhere in the world.

A unique work, an in-depth and original analysis written by the most famous and prolific author in the world of bonsai.