{"product_id":"156248","title":"Going to see art with a blind friend ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYDPqELFZQCChpvjIMvTHOIRRH3gN.png?v=1765019453\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Going to see art with a blind friend \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/122944993\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \"Going to See Art with a Sightless Friend\" is a book written by the author, winner of the Nitta Jiro Literature Award and the Kaiko Takeshi Nonfiction Award, and contains records of visiting art museums around Japan with Kenji Shiratori, a congenitally blind man, and appreciating various works of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How does a blind person perceive a work of art? Shiratori Kenji accompanies a sighted person to a work of art, where he listens to visual explanations and discusses the artwork while appreciating it.\u003cbr\u003e In the process, the conversation expands beyond the boundaries of art to include various topics such as art, humanity, society, history, disability, and normalcy. \u003cbr\u003eShiratori's way of viewing art not only breaks away from familiar methods of appreciating art, but also changes the familiar perspective on the world.\u003cbr\u003e When you see it with him, the painting, the people, and the world all come across with completely different colors and textures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The book became a bestseller immediately after its publication in Japan, was nominated for the 53rd Soichi Oya Nonfiction Award, and won the grand prize in the nonfiction category of the 2022 Booksellers' Awards, in which Japanese booksellers select the best book of the year.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e prolog\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: There's an art gallery there\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: What the Masseuse and Leonardo da Vinci Have in Common\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: What Even the Stars of the Universe Cannot Resist\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Buildings and Planes, a Landscape of Nowhere\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: What is the field that looks like a lake?\u003cbr\u003e Days when we all enjoyed art together\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Tears Glittering in the Ghost's Eyes \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: People Going into the Wilderness\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: A Diary I Will Never Read Again\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Where Did Everyone Go?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Visiting the Orsay Museum from a Corner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11 Just to Dream\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12 The Lake with the White Bird\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e List of included works\u003cbr\u003e References\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate4318\/MidCate007\/431761190.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e When it comes to vision, we often think of the 'eyes' and eyesight as important, but it is actually said to be a problem related to the brain.\u003cbr\u003e What is absolutely necessary in the act of seeing an object is previously accumulated knowledge and experience, that is, information in the brain.\u003cbr\u003e Whether it's a landscape, art, or a person's face, we interpret and understand everything based on our own experiences and memories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Even if they are visually impaired, those who were born blind and those who became blind after growing up have had completely different experiences throughout their lives, so the amount of information and the content of the information accumulated in their heads are bound to be different. \u003cbr\u003eSo, the world that Mr. Shiratori 'sees', who has extremely limited experience seeing things, is different from that of people who are able to see and people who have lost their sight halfway through life.\u003cbr\u003e In other words, Mr. Shiratori cannot reproduce in his mind the cup I am holding in front of me right now in the same size, color, and shape.\u003cbr\u003e He 'sees' the cup using a completely different imagination.\u003cbr\u003e If we turn this around, even a 'sighted person' cannot even imagine what Shiratori-san 'sees'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “For example, if you know someone with a disability, you might think that even if the child is born with a slight disability, it will be okay, as long as the child is healthy.\u003cbr\u003e But would that person really be okay with their child having anencephaly? I don't think it's possible to go that far.\u003cbr\u003e “You could call that kind of thinking eugenics.”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.311\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEven people who believe they are self-reliant often rely heavily on something: their family, their company, a service, technology, natural resources, their natural environment, or the legacy their parents left behind.\u003cbr\u003e The moment we lose something, our lives can fall apart.\u003cbr\u003e Administrative agencies that once deemed people with disabilities \"unfortunate,\" the current trend of emphasizing only \"self-responsibility\" for those who experience failure in life, and the tendency to measure a person's worth solely by their \"ability\" to \"do\" something are now exerting negative influences on society in various ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “We can’t be anyone else.\u003cbr\u003e I can't be a depressed person who is so mentally and physically exhausted that I stay locked in my room, or a person with ADHD.\u003cbr\u003e Neither can we be blind, nor can we be anyone else. \u003cbr\u003eYou can't try to understand someone else's feelings! It's a society where only shallow, pretentious thoughts like \"I can't\" and \"I can\" are used to show off.\u003cbr\u003e Today's society.\u003cbr\u003e So it's annoying! So we'd rather just stand up and go \"Wow!\"\u003cbr\u003e “I want to laugh in this world.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.406\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Okay, then tell me what you see.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Art Museum Tour with a \"Blind Art Appreciator\"\u003cbr\u003e Shaking up conventional wisdom about art, society, humanity, disability, and normalcy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ★ 2022 Bookstore Awards Nonfiction Category Grand Prize Winner!\u003cbr\u003e ★ Finalist for the 53rd Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award!\u003cbr\u003e ★ Strongly recommended by Kim Cho-yeop and Lee Gil-bo-ra!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Going to See Art with a Sightless Friend\" is a book written by the author, winner of the Nitta Jiro Literature Award and the Kaiko Takeshi Nonfiction Award, and contains records of visiting art museums around Japan with Kenji Shiratori, a congenitally blind man, and appreciating various works of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How does a blind person perceive a work of art? Shiratori Kenji accompanies a sighted person to a work of art, where he listens to visual explanations and discusses the artwork while appreciating it.\u003cbr\u003e In the process, the conversation expands beyond the boundaries of art to include various topics such as art, humanity, society, history, disability, and normalcy.\u003cbr\u003e Shiratori's way of viewing art not only breaks away from familiar methods of appreciating art, but also changes the familiar perspective on the world.\u003cbr\u003e When you see it with him, the painting, the people, and the world all come across with completely different colors and textures.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe book became a bestseller immediately after its publication in Japan, was nominated for the 53rd Soichi Oya Nonfiction Award, and won the grand prize in the nonfiction category of the 2022 Booksellers' Awards, in which Japanese booksellers select the best book of the year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI can't see, but I go to the art museum.\u003cbr\u003e Art Museum Tour with a Blind Appreciator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Genji Shiratori was born blind and has almost no visual memory.\u003cbr\u003e After graduating from a school for the blind, he naturally obtained a massage therapist license, but he began to question, \"Is it okay if I only know about the blind community?\" and developed a desire to do something that was not typical of a blind person.\u003cbr\u003e Then, by chance, he goes to an exhibition of Da Vinci's works and his life changes.\u003cbr\u003e Feeling drawn to art viewing, he called an art gallery and asked for guidance, saying, “I can’t see, but I want to see the artwork.”\u003cbr\u003e That's how his visit to the art gallery begins.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHow can one appreciate art when one can't see? Genji Shiratori \"sees\" art by discussing various topics with his companions, who provide visual information about the artwork.\u003cbr\u003e It's not the right answer, but it's about sharing various interpretations that reflect each person's subjectivity and opinion, and enjoying the process of 'trying to understand what is difficult to understand.'\u003cbr\u003e This method of appreciation that Shiratori has naturally acquired is very similar to the “interactive appreciation” advocated by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and utilized around the world, and so Japanese art museum officials are also paying attention to it.\u003cbr\u003e Having lived as a blind art appreciator for over 20 years, Shiratori conducts \"Appreciation Workshops for Sighted and Blind People\" throughout Japan as a guide to \"interactive appreciation.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe author, who lived a post-Japanese life working in American companies and at the UN headquarters in Paris, returned to work as a writer and won the Nitta Jiro Literature Prize and the Kaiko Takeshi Nonfiction Prize. He met Kenji Shiratori after an acquaintance said, “It would be fun to see his work together,” and ended up working with him for over two years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book, which contains the story of that two-year journey, became a bestseller immediately after its publication, was nominated for the 53rd Soichi Oya Nonfiction Award, and won the Grand Prize in the Nonfiction category of the 2022 Bookstore Awards.\u003cbr\u003e Additionally, the author co-directed a feature-length documentary, \"The Blind Mr. Shiratori Goes to See Art,\" which was screened throughout Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThings that were invisible begin to become visible\u003cbr\u003e Conversations that transcend common sense and break down prejudice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Everyone who has seen Shiratori Genji's work says the same thing. \u003cbr\u003eWhen you go to an art museum with him, you see things you hadn't seen before, and the familiar art museum feels like a completely different place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Human vision is a rather imperfect ability.\u003cbr\u003e Humans view both landscapes and art based on the knowledge and experience accumulated in their brains.\u003cbr\u003e In the process, vision becomes distorted once more because we make our own judgments by affirming or denying the objects in front of us based on the memory information.\u003cbr\u003e Additionally, since people who can see are exposed to a vast amount of visual information on a daily basis, they unconsciously select only the information they need.\u003cbr\u003e That is, even if it is right in front of you, there are many cases where you cannot see it or each person sees it differently.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhy do familiar things seem different when you see Shiratori Genji and his works? It's because, facing a work you would normally just glance over, you strive to \"see it better,\" to \"see it anew,\" to tell him a little more about it.\u003cbr\u003e Just having a blind person next to you increases your visual resolution and broadens your field of vision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It's not just vision that changes.\u003cbr\u003e As the audience struggles to narrow down their opinions about the artist and the meaning of his work, they share their personal experiences and engage in conversations about a wide range of topics, from trivial matters like dreams and memories to art, history, and social issues. \u003cbr\u003eIn the meantime, not only will the works before your eyes begin to look slightly different, but you will also begin to look at the slightly different points of view, the discrimination within yourself that you had not noticed, and the social common sense and conventions that you had never questioned with a new perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Just as Genji Shiratori borrows the eyes of those who view his work, those who participate in his work also borrow the eyes through which he views the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCan art change society?\u003cbr\u003e A Journey of \"Seeing Together\" to Resist Cynicism and Arrogance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although this book depicts a journey to an art museum and see works of art, the author goes a step further and sharply examines the society that embraces art and the common sense that permeates that society as a whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From a young age, Genji Shiratori heard that he had to work harder because he was disabled, and he grew up trying to get closer to non-disabled people. \u003cbr\u003eIn fact, it is not the individuals who are born with disabilities that need to change, but society.\u003cbr\u003e Eventually, he begins to question and resent the absurdity of forcing effort on individuals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this society, which revolves around the premise of ‘being able to see,’ ‘being able to hear,’ and ‘being able to do things on one’s own,’ the idea that ‘people with disabilities are unfortunate’ is deeply rooted.\u003cbr\u003e In the past, the 'Movement to Not Have Unfortunate Children' and the sterilization of disabled people, which were carried out under the leadership of government agencies in Japan, were based on this social eugenics ideology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e However, Kenji Shiratori, who criticizes such a social atmosphere, also asks whether his behavior, such as going to art galleries and taking pictures, is based on a sense of discrimination against people with disabilities. \u003cbr\u003eShiratori gradually breaks free from the unconscious compulsion to become closer to non-disabled people, realizing that “‘can do’ and ‘can’t do’ are not pluses and minuses.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author also confesses to his own internal prejudices that he had not yet realized, and criticizes not only stereotypes about people with disabilities, but also the trend of emphasizing only independence and growth, and the system of sacrificing people for greater good, including economic development.\u003cbr\u003e Furthermore, through our journey with Shiratori Genji, we are shaken by our own arrogance and neutrality as we realize the tragedy that arises when different definitions collide, the hidden eugenics in the hearts of ordinary people, and the realistic limits of our efforts to empathize with others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shiratori Kenji and those who joined him on his pilgrimage to art museums also confessed that they \"met art and became comfortable with it.\" \u003cbr\u003eThanks to the experience of looking at art with Shiratori, their consciousness and lives have changed, and that change is quietly spreading from person to person.\u003cbr\u003e Being with other beings, looking at art and the world 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