18 books, taste the spirit of "craftsman"

Shoemakers, carpenters, blacksmiths, bean curd makers ... "Artisans" originally referred to these skilled craftsmen. "Craftsman" is the 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 skills and quality, but also for the experience of "heart". Craftsmen are easy to get, but ingenuity is rare. Forging a truly original "craftsman" is a process, 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 a career, you must devote yourself to your work, love your work, have no complaints, and spend your whole life honing your skills. This is the secret of success. "

Recommend a few original books, and walk into these great or ordinary "artisan worlds" that actually exist in our lives and affect our lives.

skilled worker

Richard Sonnett? write

Li Jihong? translate

Shanghai Translation Publishing House

The Craftsman tells a basic human impulse: the desire to work hard just to get things done. Although the word craftsman is reminiscent of a way of life 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 craftsmanship.

Artisans, from bricklayers in ancient Rome to goldsmiths in the Renaissance, from printing houses in Paris to factories in London, were all the objects of his discussion. In the past, the life of those craftsmen and their crafts also revealed some ways to use tools, arrange work and think about materials, and then provided us with various feasible solutions on how to use skills to guide our lives.

Creation is spiritual and beautiful.

[Japan] Akagi Minden? write

Rick. translate

Ruipu Culture/Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House

Creation can often make you concentrate on the present and the whole process of creation, because your love and freedom of creation make your heart free from distractions. You unconsciously express your feelings and enjoy the production process from the bottom of your heart. There is a sense of satisfaction when objects change from messy to beautiful and tangible.

The true creator is always calm, without stupid persistence, but drifting with the flow. The creator's heart is mostly pure, so there is a kind of manual persistence.

"I just started with what I take for granted in my daily life. Don't force yourself, don't embarrass yourself, slowly and wholeheartedly do what you can do now. As long as it is face to face with silk thread and cloth, it is heart to heart. "

"Creation is spiritual and beautiful", as craftsmen generally do. It is precisely because of this calmness that we can completely focus on the present and create works that are natural, simple, full of aura and deeply touching.

skilled worker

Apply for fishing? write

Rip Culture/Democracy and Construction Press

A lost miniature of China.

The river of time with a history of nearly 600 years.

Masons, carpenters, bean curd makers, lamplighters, carpenters, hairdressers, pot repairers.

Sculptors, gardeners, blacksmiths, handyman, tailors, teachers, weighers and weavers.

Dying villages, dying crafts and their fate legends are being forgotten little by little.

This paper tells the fate story of craftsmen and their families in Shenfu fishing hometown-Shencun. From these stories, a village with tens of thousands of people in northern Jiangsu, the changes of local culture and life, and the author's lost hometown are recalled. The rise and fall of Shencun is not only the change of the times, but also the fate of the world, which makes people feel sad and sad.

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

Alan lee? write

Huang Liyuan? Translation? Li Ka-shing? school

Century Wenjing

At the invitation of Peter Jackson, alan lee went to New Zealand with illustrator john howe to make a conceptual design for The The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The work was planned to take six months, but it lasted six years. Before filming, he spent about nine months studying the wonderful elf world.

In this album, which contains more than 65,438+050 sketches and set drawings, including the original concept of The Lord of the Rings film and new paintings specially created for this book, Allen Lee hopes that readers can see "the desire to know more about this landscape and story, not just instantaneous and intuitive actions."

Touched, so create.

[Japan] Joe Hisaishi? write

He Qi Hong? translate

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 goes into the studio every day and works hard until late at night. He will be depressed by failure and happy by success. Reading page by page, Joe Hisaishi's figure gradually becomes clear, thick and within reach. He is neither an ambitious musician nor an eccentric artist. He is just a person who is serious and responsible for his work and full of enthusiasm for life.

"Now, I think there should be no end to creative work. In this life, I hope everyone can become a creator. "

Search expert

Gabriel Gertler? write

Ding Na Wu Pengfei? translate

Life reading Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore

The world is big, there must be all kinds of industries, people and colorful lifestyles.

Sometimes, even if full of curiosity, the snooping on other people's professional lives is still limited to the extent of watching the fire on the other side of the stage from behind the scenes. Then you can open the book Looking 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 of books: how is a book made?

[Japan] Tetsuo Matsuda? Write/? [Japan] Naize Xunzi? pigment

Lin Shaoan? translate

Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House

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

From book opening to making fake sample books, paper-cutting, mounting, mimeograph ... Matsuda Zhefu showed the book making process step by step, and with the detailed description of illustrator Xunzi Naize, the reading process suddenly became a tribute to the book itself.

Reading "Love" not only knows how to make the book, but also shows how much a person respects an object. Author's comment: This is an odyssey trip in the book world; Reader's comment: This is a love novel between people and books!

Fuck you, life.

Jody Greg? write

Tapper? translate

new star press

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

It can be seen from this passage he wrote in The Society that "art is completely divorced from life, and this independence and freedom is necessary, because if a painting wants to impress us, it can't remind us of 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 inject vitality into the painting."

Lucian did what he hoped. He kept our hearts alive for a long time. Art is immortal, and so is lucien Floyd.

Biography of Ang Lee: Ten Years of Movie Dreams

Zhang Weiwei? authorized strength

Citic publishing house

It's not about teaching you how to live, how to make movies and how to face the oncoming difficulties. Because life needs no teaching; You can't learn movies by a book; For the next difficulty, we don't know when it will be completed.

Everything is accidental, accidental and doomed. In a word from Ang Lee, when making a movie, the situation is better than others, and everything you get is the result of your own persistence. Among them, there are countless changes. A man in his thirties who hasn't made a career, who would know that his calmness and wisdom can now shine at the Venice Oscar in Berlin?

Insist on having a good show, or perhaps insist on falling into the world of laughter. Anyway, this is life.

Ex: He started a new film tradition in Asia, and now many filmmakers all over Asia are practicing this tradition.

Nobody is an Island: Hou Xiaoxian's Movie World

[America] James Uden? write

Huang Wenjie? translate

Fudan university press

The purpose of this monograph is not only to provide an overview of Hou Xiaoxian's creative career until today, but also to try to explain many reasons why it is presented in its unique way.

Like any successful culture, China culture is an adaptable collective way of life. Because Taiwan Province Province is so important here, this book mainly relies on the materials of Taiwan Province Province in Chinese, because the local words about Hou Xiaoxian's and Taiwan Province's films can hardly be read outside the island. However, most importantly, this book tries to show how indispensable Taiwan Province Province is in Hou Xiaoxian's creative career.

cook

Wang Zengqi? write

Jiangsu literature and art publishing house

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

I feel close to reading Wang Zengqi's book. Wang Lao's pursuit of food and love of life is like chatting with a bosom friend. He will come with you. In a popular phrase, Wang Lao really has feelings for life. Love life, in the final analysis, is the word "exquisite". Attention is not a materialized pursuit, and there is no need to demand specific standards. It should be a state of mind and a kind of "personality".

A flower a day

[Japan] Kawase Toshiro? write

Yang Ling? translate

Ruipu Culture/Hunan People's Publishing House

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

After the Great East Japan Earthquake, from June, 20 1 1, Kawase Toshiro used ancient, simple and time-honored utensils as flowerpots, went to Shan Ye to find the most seasonal flowers and leaves according to the seasons, and integrated them into flowerpots. He 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, giving people a feeling of life in "emptiness" and "silence". In A Flower a Day, Kawase Toshiro emphasized that "the highest skill is no skill" and conveyed the ultimate natural gesture of "vegetarian" flowers without trace.

Western writing style

[Japan] Kobayashi? write

Liu Qing? translate

Citic publishing house

Mr Kobayashi, known as the first person in Japanese western fonts, is a master of fonts in Japan and even in the West. He is familiar with eastern and western cultures, history, modern calligraphy and font design.

Whether it's a layman who doesn't know anything about western fonts (even a biased person like the chairman) or a professional graphic designer, this book contains a lot of information to let every reader know more about this field. As the advertisement on the vest says, "I will tell you how to use western fonts correctly from an Asian perspective."

Life of employees in Xiamachi, Tokyo

[Japan] Beizhengshi/Sawada Chonglong? write

Chen ruoruo? translate

Century Wenjing

Looking at this book "Workers' Life in Nomachi, Tokyo", I am very touched by people who "guard their careers and lives with pure craftsman's heart". They are the kite master, the blue dyeing master, the proprietress of izakaya, the master of Sanweixian, the owner of the tofu shop, and the goldsmiths who make carvings and inlays.

Speaking of "celebrities". This "celebrity" is similar to the title of "celebrity" in Go, and is a truly outstanding expert, not what we usually call a celebrity. The master said he was just a good player, not a celebrity. "Celebrities have no food to eat, and good players have enough to eat" because "celebrities will use' this thing is not suitable for me' and gladly refuse. They are really stunted. Even if others come to ask for help in person, they still don't do 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 in this business, and they have long known it. In rags, do what others can't do. ..... The works made by such people will also leave an incredible spectacle for the world.

Everything is bright and beautiful.

James heriott? write

Frame Yan Lun? translate

china city press

Harry, a young country vet, drives an old car with black smoke every day. Hand-to-hand combat with vicious dogs, preparing 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. The author recorded the details of rural medical practice with relaxed and humorous brushstrokes, 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 and praises the miracle of life. He is good at finding beauty in the little things in life, and more importantly, he can convey his love to readers in a nearly perfect way. Let's feel life, love and laughter equally.

Dujing stationery small travel

[Japan] Nakamura Snow? write

Xu Xiaopei? translate

Zhuque culture enterprise co., ltd

Kyoto cuisine, Kyoto shrine, Kyoto groceries, Kyoto desserts, Kyoto maple leaves, Kyoto architecture, Kyoto coffee ... After all this, those old stationery stores and shops standing quietly on the street corner are waiting for you. Leisurely and slowly … the time spent in the stationery store on the corner.

The boss is an old lady who has passed away but still sticks to the shop, a third-generation boss who inherited his great-grandfather and founded a century-old shop, a century-old drawer who guards the stationery store, a kind grandfather who specializes in making red and white bags, a shop that frequents the antique market, a shop that reminds me of my childhood partner, a stationery store that has been inherited for ten generations, and so on. At the same time, it introduces the scenery of Kyoto market. This is a private book integrating stationery visit and tourism.

Write this thing.

[America] Stephen King? write

Zhang Kun? translate

Shanghai literature and art publishing house

This book is in Stephen? Jin's life and creative career also have unique significance: 199June 19, Stephen? Kim was in a car accident while going out for a walk, and his injuries were life-threatening. And this book, reviewing and summarizing my life and creative experience, almost became Stephen before it was finished? King's final judgment.

After a circle of death, Stephen? In the case of comminuted fracture of hip bone and great pain, Jin picked up the pen again and continued to write "writing" with difficulty. He said frankly: "Writing is like an action of persisting in faith for me, which is a provocation to despair. The second part of this book is written in this spirit. As we used to say when we were young, I tried my best to write. Writing is not life, but I think sometimes it is a way to return to life. "

Loneliness: It takes fifteen years to build a ship sailing to the other side. They are willing to be lonely, but they have also gained precious happiness …

Funevo A Mu ... Black paint; (Japan) Japan

[Japan] Shion Miura? write

Jiang Wei? translate

Shanghai literature and art publishing house

People who are not talented, unpopular and want to change jobs …

What should be burned to stimulate real enthusiasm?

Xuanwu Research plans to publish a medium-sized Mandarin dictionary "Metropolitan Sea" for contemporary people. This work is presided over by an experienced and meticulous scholar Matsumoto. Who knows that Araki, his most valued editor, reached retirement age and chose to go home to take care of his sick wife. At this time, there are only two temporary workers in the editorial department, Nishiooka Masayoshi and Sasaki, who are impetuous. Araki and Nishioka searched in many ways and finally found a young Madiguang who is not good at communicating with people, but has a keen sense of words and works very seriously. In the vast ocean of words, Marty and his colleagues spent fifteen years compiling a boat sailing to the other side. They are willing to be lonely, but they have also gained precious happiness …