Long strange journey : on modern Zen, Zen art, and other predicaments / Gregory P.A. Levine.

Author
Levine, Gregory P. A., 1963- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Description
xiv, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

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    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. --Publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-318) and index.
    Contents
    • Zen art before nothingness
    • Making Zen modern : D.T. Suzuki
    • Danxia burns a Buddha : Zen and the art of iconoclasm
    • The look and logos of Zen art
    • Zen boom "culture wars"
    • Zen influence, inherence, and denial : reconsidering postwar Zen and art
    • What's so funny? Zen cartoons, Zen humor, and bodhi-characters
    • Zen sells.
    ISBN
    • 9780824858056 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    • 0824858050 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016058319
    OCLC
    967727524
    Other standard number
    • 40027491049
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