Shoemakers, carpenters, blacksmiths, bean curd makers … "Artisans" originally refer to these skilled craftsmen. "Craftsman" is a craft of life, and "craftsman" is the person who owns this craft. Through constant tempering and sharpening with both hands, it is for the supreme pursuit of skill and quality, but also for the experience of "heart". Craftsmen are easy to get, but ingenuity is hard to get. Forging a truly original "craftsman" is a process that is accompanied by physical pain and fatigue, but the heart is calm and enjoyable.

what is a craftsman? Perhaps, as the God of Sushi said, "Once you choose your career, you must devote yourself to your work, you must love your work, you must have no complaints, and you must spend your life honing your skills. This is the secret of success."

Recommend some books with such originality, and walk into these "artisan worlds" which are great or ordinary, but actually exist in our lives and affect our lives.

craftsman

[America] Richard Sannett?

Li Jihong?

Shanghai Translation Publishing House

The Craftsman is about a basic human impulse: the desire to work hard just to get things done. Although the word craftsman is reminiscent of a lifestyle that disappears with the arrival of industrial society, Sannett believes that the field of craftsman is far greater than the scope of skilled manual labor; Today's programmers, doctors, parents and citizens need to understand the value of the craftsman spirit.

The Craftsman, from the bricklayer in ancient Rome to the goldsmith in Renaissance, from the printing house in Paris to the factory in London, is the object of his discussion. In the past, the life of those craftsmen and their craftsmanship also revealed some ways to use tools, arrange work and think about materials, and then provided us with various feasible solutions for how to use skills to guide our lives.

The creation is spiritual and beautiful

[Sun] Akagi Ming Deng?

Rick? Translation

Purui Culture/Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House

Creation can often make you completely pay attention to the present and the whole process of creation, because your heartfelt love and freedom of creation can make you have no distractions. You express your mood unconsciously and enjoy the process of making it from the bottom of your heart. When objects change from scattered and messy to beautiful and tangible, there will be a sense of satisfaction.

the real creator is always calm, without foolish persistence, but drifting with life. The creator's heart is mostly pure, so there is a hand-made persistence.

"I'm just starting from what I take for granted in my daily life. Don't force yourself, don't embarrass yourself, and slowly and wholeheartedly do what you can at the moment. Just face to face with the silk thread and the cloth, heart to heart. "

Most of the craftsmen in Creation is Spiritual and Beautiful. It is precisely because of this calmness that we can completely concentrate on the present and produce works that are natural and simple and full of aura and deeply touch people's hearts.

craftsman

Shen Fu fishing? Author

Purui Culture/Democracy and Construction Press

A miniature of the lost native China

A river of time flowing with the past 611 years

Bricklayers, masons, bean curd makers, lamp makers, carpenters, shavers, pot repairers

Carvers, gardeners, blacksmiths, miscellaneous craftsmen. The legend of their fate is being forgotten little by little.

Tell the fate stories of craftsmen and their families in Shencun, the hometown of Shen Fuyu. From these stories, we can see the changes of local culture and life in a village with tens of thousands of people in northern Jiangsu, and recall the author's lost hometown. The rise and fall of Shencun village is not only the change of the times, but also the fate of the world, which makes people sigh and feel sad.

continent on paper: alan lee's sketch collection of The Lord of the Rings

[English] alan lee?

Huang Liyuan? Translate? Li jiacheng? School

Century Scenery

alan lee was invited by Peter Jackson to go to New Zealand with illustrator john howe to do conceptual design for the The Lord of the Rings trilogy film. The work was originally planned to take six months, but it lasted for six years. Before shooting, he spent about nine months studying the wonderful elf world.

In this album, which contains more than 151 sketches and setting drawings, including the original The Lord of the Rings film concept and new paintings specially created for this book, what Allen Lee hopes readers can see is "the desire to know more about this landscape and story, not just the instantaneous and intuitive actions."

moved, so create

[day] Joe Hisaishi?

he qihong?

CITIC Publishing House

Someone once summed up this book in one sentence: "The birth of a master." However, the birth of this master is not legendary. We just saw him keep exercising in order to keep healthy. He entered the studio every day and worked hard until late at night. He would be depressed because of failure and happy because of success. Reading from page to page, Joe Hisaishi's figure gradually became clear, thick and within reach. He is not a high-flying musician or an eccentric artist. He is just a man who is conscientious in his work and full of enthusiasm for life.

"Now, I think the creative work should never end. In this life, I hope everyone can be a creator. "

Interview with an expert

[Germany] Gabrielle Gertler?

Ding Na and Wu Pengfei?

Life, Reading and New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore

The world is big, and there must be various industries, people and colorful lifestyles.

Sometimes, even if you are full of curiosity, you can only spy on other people's professional lives to the extent of watching the fire from the other side of the stage from behind the scenes. Then you can open this book "Searching for Experts" and follow this sharp-eyed but objective and calm female reporter into the homes and workplaces of dozens of experts in different industries to listen to their career and life stories.

love for books: how is a book made?

[Japan] Tetsuo Matsuda? Write/? [Japan] Nezawa Xunzi? Draw

Lin Shaoan? Translation

Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House

The Book of Love is a diary of mutual understanding with books. The author, Tetsuo Matsuda, is an out-and-out "book lover", who loves books not only as "reading" but also as "objects".

From book opening to making fake sample books, cutting paper, framing and mimeogramming ... Tetsuo Matsuda shows the process of making books step by step, and with the detailed description of illustrator Xunzi Naizawa, the reading process suddenly becomes a salute to the book itself.

Reading "Love" not only shows the making of the book, but also shows how much respect a person can have for an object. The author commented: this is an odyssey trip to the book world; The reader commented: this is a love novel between people and books!

Fuck you, life

[English] Jody Greg? With

tupper?

Xinxing Publishing House

As the most important career in life-painting, how does Lucian understand it?

From the passage he wrote in Meeting, we can see that "art is completely free from life, and this independence and freedom is necessary, because if a painting wants to impress us, it can't remind us about life, it must have its own life, and it is this life that reflects life." Lucian once had strong expectations for himself. "I hope that if I concentrate to a certain extent, that kind of intense examination itself can draw vitality into the painting."

Lucian achieved what he hoped, and he kept the vitality in our hearts for a long time. Art is immortal, so is lucian freud.

Biography of Ang Lee: Ten Years' Sleep in a Movie Dream

Zhang Liangbei? Writing

CITIC Publishing House

is not to teach you how to live, how to make movies, and how to face the head-on difficulties. Because life does not need to be taught; You can't learn movies by a book; And for the ensuing hardships, we have no idea when it will be finished.

Everything is chance and fate. In Ang Lee's words, "the situation is better than others" in making movies. Everything he gets is the result of fate and his persistence. Among them, there are countless changes. A man in his thirties who has not yet made a career, who would know that his calm and wise now can shine at the Venice Oscar in Berlin?

insist on putting on a good show, or you may end up crying. Anyway, this is life.

example: he created a new film tradition in Asia, and now many filmmakers in the whole Asia are practicing this tradition.

Nobody is an Island: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Movie World

[America] James Uden?

Huang Wenjie? The purpose of translating

Fudan University Press

is not only to provide an overview of Hou Xiaoxian's creative career up to today, but also to try to explain a lot of reasons why it is presented in its unique way.

China culture, like any successful culture, is a resilient way of collective survival. Since Taiwan Province is so important here, this book mainly relies on Taiwan Province materials in Chinese, because the local words about Hou Xiaoxian and Taiwan Province's films are hardly understood outside the island. However, the most important thing is that this book tries to show how indispensable Taiwan Province is in Hou Xiaoxian's creative career.

cooking

Wang Zengqi?

Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House

Wang Zengqi is a person who draws the distance between appetite and elegant culture closest. He claims to like to visit the vegetable market: "When I come to a new place, some people like to visit department stores and some people like to visit bookstores. I would rather visit the vegetable market. Look at raw chickens, live ducks, fresh and watery melons and vegetables, and red peppers. It's lively and crowded, which makes people feel a kind of fun. "

I feel close to reading Wang Zengqi's books. Wang Lao's pursuit of food and love of life are like chatting with close friends, and he comes with you. Wang Lao really has a feeling for life by using a popular word. Loving life, in the final analysis, is the word "exquisite". Paying attention is not a materialized pursuit, and it is not necessary to be strict with specific standards. It should be a state of mind and a kind of "personality".

one flower a day

[day] Kawase Toshiro?

yang ling? Translate

Purui Culture/Hunan People's Publishing House

425 kinds of flowers and plants from Shan Ye to outline the soul memory.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake, from June 2111, Kawase Toshiro used ancient, simple and historical vessels as flower pots, went to Shan Ye to find the most seasonal flowers and leaves according to the season, and integrated them into the flower pots, and continued to serialize the column "One Flower a Day" on the Internet, which was well received and compiled into this exquisite book.

366 works are full of serenity and elegance, which gives people a kind of life inspiration in "emptiness" and "silence". In One Flower a Day, Kawase Toshiro focuses on interpreting "the highest skill is no skill" and conveys the ultimate natural posture of the "vegetarian" flower without trace.

western script

[Japanese] Kobayashi?

Liu Qing? Translation

CITIC Publishing House

Mr. Kobayashi Zhang, who is known as the first person in western fonts in Japan, is a master of fonts in Japan and the West. He is well versed in eastern and western cultures, history, modern calligraphy and font design.

No matter whether you are a layman who knows nothing about western fonts (or even a biased person like this chairman) or a professional graphic designer, this book contains a huge amount of information enough for every reader to deeply understand this field. As advertised on the waistcoat, "I will tell you how to use western fonts correctly from an Asian perspective".

Life of employees in Shimonomachi, Tokyo

[Japan] Masashi Kitajima/Shigeru Sawada?

Chen Xianruo?

Cultural Scenery of the Century

After reading this book, I was very moved by the people who "guard their profession and life with the heart of pure craftsmanship". They are the kite master, the blue dyeing master, the proprietress of izakaya, the master of Sanweixian, the owner of tofu shop and the goldsmith who makes carving and inlaying.

the "celebrity" mentioned. This "celebrity" is similar to the title of "celebrity" in Go, and it is a truly outstanding expert, not a famous person as we usually say. The master said that he was only a good player, not a celebrity. "Celebrities have no food to eat, but good players have enough to eat" because "celebrities will use' this thing doesn't agree with me' and readily refuse. They are really stunted, even if others come to the door in person and beg for help, they still don't do the jobs they don't like. They regard work as their life, and only do what they love and are fascinated by. They have no food to eat in this line, and they have long been aware of it. In rags, do what others can't do. ..... The works made by such people will also leave the world with an incredible wonder.

everything is animistic and beautiful

[England] james herriot? Writing

kind of ethics?

China City Publishing House

Harry, a young country veterinarian, drives an old car with black smoke every day to "travel south and fight north". Hand-to-hand combat with vicious dogs, ready to deal with the "shadowless feet" of mares … all kinds of "painful" experiences that make people laugh and cry are endless. Here he met the most embarrassing moment in his life and enjoyed the warmest and touching truth. With relaxed and humorous brushstrokes, the author records the details of rural medical practice, which is full of laughter and tears of veterinary life, simple human feelings and the wisdom of the land.

Harry is a man who loves life. He enjoys the gift of nature to the fullest and praises the miracle of life. He is good at discovering beauty from the little things in life, and more importantly, he can convey his love to readers in a nearly perfect way. Let us feel life, love and laughter equally.

stationery trip in Kyoto

[Japanese] nakamura snow?

Xu Xiaopei?

Suzaku Culture Co., Ltd.

Kyoto cuisine, Kyoto shrine, Kyoto groceries, Kyoto desserts, Kyoto maple leaves, Kyoto architecture, Kyoto coffee ... After experiencing these, those old stationery shops standing quietly on street corners and shopping streets are waiting for your visit. Leisurely and slowly … the time that passed at the stationery store on the corner.

The boss is an old woman who has passed away but still sticks to the shop, a third-generation boss who inherited a century-old shop founded by his great-grandfather, a century-old drawer who guards the stationery store, a kind grandfather who specializes in red and white bags, a store that frequents antique markets, a shop that reminds me of my childhood friends, a stationery store that has been passed down for ten generations, and so on. At the same time, it is interspersed with the introduction of the scenery of Kyoto market. This is a private book that combines stationery visits and tourism.

this writing thing

[America] Stephen King?

Zhang Kun?

Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

This book is in Stephen?