Mingei INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM

Title: Mingei INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM Category: Sports & Recreation / Art Galleries Clicks: 0 Listing added: Nov 17, 2006 PageRank: 6/10

Plaza de Panama Balboa Park San Diego CAWest Grand Avenue, Escondido CAMingei is a special word increasingly used throughout the world for "arts of the people." It was coined by the revered scholar, the late Dr. Soetsu Yanagi, through combining the Japanese words for all people (min) and art (gei). His keen eye observed that many useful, pre-industrial articles made by unknown craftsmen were of a beauty seldom equaled by artists of modern societies.