Japanese Zen Buddhism And The Impossible Painting

Author : Yukio Lippit
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065129

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Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting by Yukio Lippit Pdf

Zen art poses a conundrum. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism emphasizes the concept of emptiness, which among other things asserts that form is empty, that all phenomena in the world are illusory. On the other hand, a prodigious amount of artwork has been created in association with Zen thought and practice. A wide range of media, genres, expressive modes, and strategies of representation have been embraced to convey the idea of emptiness. Form has been used to express the essence of formlessness, and in Japan, this gave rise to a remarkable, highly diverse array of artworks and a tradition of self-negating art. In this volume, Yukio Lippit explores the painting The Gourd and the Catfish (ca. 1413), widely considered one of the most iconic works of Japanese Zen art today. Its subject matter appears straightforward enough: a man standing on a bank holds a gourd in both hands, attempting to capture or pin down the catfish swimming in the stream below. This is an impossible task, a nonsensical act underscored by the awkwardness with which the figure struggles even to hold his gourd. But this impossibility is precisely the point.

Author : Galit Aviman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351536110

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Zen Paintings in Edo Japan (1600-1868) by Galit Aviman Pdf

In Zen Buddhism, the concept of freedom is of profound importance. And yet, until now there has been no in-depth study of the manifestation of this liberated attitude in the lives and artwork of Edo period Zen monk-painters. This book explores the playfulness and free-spirited attitude reflected in the artwork of two prominent Japanese Zen monk-painters: Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768) and Sengai Gibon (1750-1837). The free attitude emanating from their paintings is one of the qualities which distinguish Edo period Zen paintings from those of earlier periods. These paintings are part of a Zen ink painting tradition that began following the importation of Zen Buddhism from China at the beginning of the Kamakura period (1185-1333). In this study, Aviman elaborates on the nature of this particular artistic expression and identifies its sources, focusing on the lives of the monk-painters and their artwork. The author applies a multifaceted approach, combining a holistic analysis of the paintings, i.e. as interrelated combination of text and image, with a contextualization of the works within the specific historical, art historical, cultural, social and political environments in which they were created.

Author : Shozo Sato
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781462911882

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Shodo by Shozo Sato Pdf

In this beautiful and extraordinary zen calligraphy book, Shozo Sato, an internationally recognized master of traditional Zen arts, teaches the art of Japanese calligraphy through the power and wisdom of Zen poetry. Single-line Zen Buddhist koan aphorisms, or zengo, are one of the most common subjects for the traditional Japanese brush calligraphy known as shodo. Regarded as one of the key disciplines in fostering the focused, meditative state of mind so essential to Zen, shodo calligraphy is practiced regularly by all students of Zen Buddhism in Japan. After providing a brief history of Japanese calligraphy and its close relationship with the teachings of Zen Buddhism, Sato explains the basic supplies and fundamental brushstroke skills that you'll need. He goes on to present thirty zengo, each featuring: An example by a skilled Zen monk or master calligrapher An explanation of the individual characters and the Zen koan as a whole Step-by-step instructions on how to paint the phrase in a number of styles (Kaisho, Gyosho, Sosho) A stunning volume on the intersection of Japanese aesthetics and Zen Buddhist thought, Shodo: The Quiet Art of Japanese Zen Calligraphy guides beginning and advanced students alike to a deeper understanding of the unique brush painting art form of shodo calligraphy. Shodo calligraphy topics include: The Art of Kanji The Four Treasures of Shodo Ideogram Zengo Students of Shodo

Author : Gregory P. A. Levine,Yukio Lippit
Publisher : Japan Society Gallery
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015069328105

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Awakenings by Gregory P. A. Levine,Yukio Lippit Pdf

Transmitted from China to Japan in the 13th century, Zen Buddhism not only introduced religious practices but also literature, calligraphy, philosophy, and ink painting to Japanese disciples. This elegant book discusses these fields as they combined to encompass the evocative practice of figure painting within Zen Buddhism in medieval Japan. Focusing on forty-seven exceptional Japanese and Chinese paintings from the 12th to the 16th centuries--which together illustrate the story of the "awakening” of Zen art--the book features essays by distinguished scholars that discuss the life and art within Zen monastic and lay communities. The authors explore the ideology underlying the development of Zen’s own pantheon of characters created to imagine the Buddha’s wisdom and offer fresh insights into the role of the visual arts within Zen practice as it developed in Japan in close dialogue with the Asian continent.

Author : Stephen Addiss
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Buddhist art and symbolism
ISBN : UOM:39015036084492

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The Art of Zen by Stephen Addiss Pdf

Addiss brings together the great masterpieces of paintings and calligraphy created by Japanese monks, who turned to visual imagery as an aid to meditation, as an expression of enlightenment, and as the purest form of transmitting Zen principles. 117 illustrations, 73 in color.

Author : Reiko Chiba
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781462904198

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Sesshu's Long Scroll by Reiko Chiba Pdf

Sesshu's Long Sroll is the masterwork of the 15th-century Japanese artist, Susshu—considered by many Japanese to be their greatest. Famed not only as a painter but also as a Zen priest and a great traveler, Sesshu found inspiration for his wonderful landscapes both in China and Japan. This magnificent scroll, which pictures the procession of the seasons, is essentially religious painting with a strong atmosphere of Zen Buddhism. Nature, rather than man, is dominant, although the human touch is charmingly evident from time to time. One can take this fascinating Zen landscape journey again and again, and always find new delights.

Author : Audrey Yoshiko Seo,Stephen Addiss,Matthew Welch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Calligraphy, Zen
ISBN : UOM:39015039909703

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The Art of Twentieth-century Zen by Audrey Yoshiko Seo,Stephen Addiss,Matthew Welch Pdf

The Art of Twentieth-Century Zen is a display of artistic variations on traditional Zen themes. Serving as a window on the Zen world, it is an important contribution to the study of Zen art for the Western audience.

Author : Gregory P. A. Levine
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824858087

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Long Strange Journey by Gregory P. A. Levine Pdf

Long Strange Journey presents the first critical analysis of visual objects and discourses that animate Zen art modernism and its legacies, with particular emphasis on the postwar “Zen boom.” Since the late nineteenth century, Zen and Zen art have emerged as globally familiar terms associated with a spectrum of practices, beliefs, works of visual art, aesthetic concepts, commercial products, and modes of self-fashioning. They have also been at the center of fiery public disputes that have erupted along national, denominational, racial-ethnic, class, and intellectual lines. Neither stable nor strictly a matter of euphoric religious or intercultural exchange, Zen and Zen art are best approached as productive predicaments in the study of religion, spirituality, art, and consumer culture, especially within the frame of Buddhist modernism. Long Strange Journey’s modern-contemporary emphasis sets it off from most writing on Zen art, which focuses on masterworks by premodern Chinese and Japanese artists, gushes over “timeless” visual qualities as indicative of metaphysical states, or promotes with ahistorical, trend-spotting flair Zen art’s design appeal and therapeutic values. In contrast, the present work plots a methodological through line distinguished by “discourse analysis,” moving from the first contacts between Europe and Japanese Zen in the sixteenth century to late nineteenth–early twentieth-century transnational exchanges driven by Japanese Buddhists and intellectuals and the formation of a Zen art canon; to postwar Zen transformations of practice and avant-garde expressions; to popular embodiments of our “Zenny zeitgeist,” such as Zen cartoons. The book presents an alternative history of modern-contemporary Zen and Zen art that emphasizes their unruly and polythetic-prototypical natures, taking into consideration serious religious practice and spiritual and creative discovery as well as conflicts over Zen’s value amid the convolutions of global modernity, squabbles over authenticity, resistance against the notion of “Zen influence,” and competing claims to speak for Zen art made by monastics, lay advocates, artists, and others.

Author : Katsuhiro Yoshizawa
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781458758835

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The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin by Katsuhiro Yoshizawa Pdf

The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin is a stunning volume containing many of Hakuin's finest calligraphies and paintings. Katsuhiro Yoshizawa, the leading Japanese expert on Hakuin, masterfully reveals the profound religious meaning embedded in each artwork, providing a richly detailed documentary of the life and lessons of one of Zen's most respected teachers.

Author : Yasuichi Awakawa
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015010996059

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Zen Painting by Yasuichi Awakawa Pdf

The collection of ink paintings reproduced here brings Zen directly to the eye. Wild spontaneity, irreverence and humor; conciseness that transforms familiar things into raw, essential forms; use of space to suggest, simultaneously, limitless depth and nothing at all - these paintings by both priest-painters and professional artists bear witness to Zen in a way that words cannot. At the same time, this book reveals the magnificently varied effects that can be achieved with Chinese ink and brush. THE AUTHOR: Born in 1902 and trained as an economist, the late Yasuichi Awakawa wrote polifically and lectured throughout Japan and in Europe about Zen painting. He was professor of economics at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.

Author : Stephen Addiss,John Daido Loori
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781590307472

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The Zen Art Book by Stephen Addiss,John Daido Loori Pdf

"When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider ultimate truth. Here, forty masterpieces of painting and calligraphy by renowned masters such as Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) and Gibon Sengai (1750–1837) are reproduced along with commentary that illuminates both the art and its teaching. The authors’ essays provide an excellent introduction to both the aesthetic and didactic aspects of this art that can be profound, perplexing, serious, humorous, and breathtakingly beautiful—often all within the same simple piece."--Publisher description.

Author : Hugo Munsterberg
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462904327

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Zen & Oriental Art by Hugo Munsterberg Pdf

Zen & Oriental Art is an indispensable, beautifully illustrated introduction to the influences of Zen Buddhism on Oriental painting. folk art, and architecture, with a special section on the role of Zen in twentieth-century art and architecture in the West. Author, Dr. Munsterberg quite naturally begins with an explanation of Zen Buddhism itself, and the historical development of Zen in India and China. Zen's particularly rapid adoption in Japan is covered in the next chapter, which is followed by sections on the Zen art of ink painting in both China and Japan. Also described are the influences of Zen on Japanese architecture, and the intimate connection of the religion with the Japanese tea ceremony. Of particular interest to Western readers is the chapter on Zen and twentieth-century Western art. "A knowledgeable and affable guide." —The Japan Times "There is a peacefulness that comes over one just leafing through this book." —Antiquarian Bookman

Author : Hiroshi Kanazawa
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034677867

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Japanese Ink Painting by Hiroshi Kanazawa Pdf

Author : Arthur Waley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547156840

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Zen Buddhism, and Its Relation to Art by Arthur Waley Pdf

Zen Buddhism, and Its Relation to Art is an essay by Arthur Waley. It conveys history and key personalities of Zen Buddhism while discussing Zen influenced art. Excerpt: "The method of teaching by symbolic acts (such as the plucking of a flower) was extensively used by the Zen masters. For example, when a disciple asked Enkwan a question about[15] the nature of Buddha, he answered, "Bring me a clean bowl." When the priest brought the bowl, the master said, "Now put it back where you found it." He signified that the priest's questionings must return to their proper place, the questioner's heart, from which alone spiritual knowledge can be obtained."

Author : Mira Locher,Shunmyo Masuno
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781462922178

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Zen Garden Design by Mira Locher,Shunmyo Masuno Pdf

Zen Buddhist priest Shunmyo Masuno understands that today's busy world leaves little time or space for self-reflection, but that a garden--even in the most urban of spaces--can provide some respite. In his words, "The garden is a special spiritual place where the mind dwells." With this in mind, Masuno has designed scores of spectacular Japanese gardens and landscapes with the aim of helping people achieve a balanced life in the 21st century. This book explores Masuno's design process and ideas, which are integral to his daily Zen training and teachings. It features 15 unique gardens and contemplative landscapes completed in six countries over as many years--all thoughtfully described and documented in full-color photos and drawings. Readers will also find insights on Masuno's philosophy of garden design and a conversation between the designer and famed architect Terunobu Fujimori. Zen Garden Design provides an in-depth examination of Masuno's gardens and landscapes--not just as beautiful spaces, but as places for meditation and contemplation.