Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

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Bernard, Jonathan W. (Winter 1993). "The Minimalist Aesthetic in the Plastic Arts and in Music". Perspectives of New Music. 31 (1): 87. doi: 10.2307/833043. JSTOR 833043. , citing Dan Warburton as his authority. Lancaster, Clay (September 1953). "Japanese Buildings in the United States before 1900: Their Influence upon American Domestic Architecture". The Art Bulletin. 35 (3): 217–224. doi: 10.1080/00043079.1953.11408188. To portray global warming to non-scientists, in 2018 British climate scientist Ed Hawkins developed warming stripes graphics that are deliberately devoid of scientific or technical indicia, for ease of understanding by non-scientists. [93] Hawkins explained that "our visual system will do the interpretation of the stripes without us even thinking about it". [94]

Because once you’ve finished with the external ‘stuff’ in your life, you’re free to work on the internal. There was this moment of transmission, when the ideas of Zen and Japanese Buddhism were coming to the United States for the first significant time. (Although it’s important to note that there was already more East Asian influence in California.) So these artists were literally influenced by Japanese culture, and adopting its ideas as they understood it. Puglisi, L. P. (2008), New Directions in Contemporary Architecture, Chichester, John Wiley and Sons. In a more general sense, minimalism as a visual strategy can be found in the geometric abstractions of painters associated with the Bauhaus movement, in the works of Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and other artists associated with the De Stijl movement, the Russian Constructivist movement, and in the work of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. [12] [13] Essentialism is one of the most unique books on minimalism because it focuses on our own choices. We tend to add things into our lives without much thought, and as a result, are exhausted.Cerver, Francisco Asencio (1997). The Architecture of Minimalism. New York: Arco. ISBN 0-8230-6149-3. Certainly minimalism, or the formal art movement of Minimalism of the 1950s and 1960s, did have roots in Zen. Artists like John Cage and Agnes Martin were among the first American artists to adopt those ideas, through the Japanese professor D T Suzuki, who was teaching at Columbia. So I have trouble calling it a movement, except maybe right now, the heavily branded minimalist lifestyle. Because I don’t know that it connects; I don’t know that each person has been influenced by the previous person in the way that you might think of with liberalism, or political humanism.

Morigami Shouyo, " Wabi sabi yugen no kokoro: seiyo tetsugaku o koeru joi ishiki" (Japanese) ISBN 978-4434201424

Worst Minimalism Books on Decluttering

We can all benefit from taking control of our possessions and determining what stays and what goes and minimalist books are a great place to start! Reading books on the topic will give you a way to do just that while also choosing what does and does not work for your lifestyle. It’s entirely my fault for not reading the book summary but at first glance, you’d think the book is about the author’s journey with minimalism. It reads more like a collection of thoughts from a good friend than an advice manual, but it will make readers think hard about their own lives and what they give time and attention to. Niequist advocates for readers to focus on one thing at a time and teaches about genuine rest and simplicity in the process. 4. The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less by Christine Platt This article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. ( October 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The authors take you through every step. During the first stage, they require you to assess the meaning your objects have to you and how valuable they are to your life; after you have decided what can stay and what must go, they guide you through the process of decluttering your space, and finally they advise you on how to design your rooms so that everything looks beautiful, clean, and tidy. When coming up with the guidelines, the authors took into consideration sustainability and the well-being of our planet and therefore the process of decluttering won’t be just another cause of more litter on a landfill – they present you with strategies to reuse and/or donate your (soon to be ex) belongings.