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The Zen Arts - An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan (Paperback)
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The Zen Arts - An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan (Paperback)
Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books
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The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the
popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese
culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic
pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture
and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience
of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment. This book
challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts
should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of
representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that
these texts and images emerged fully as systems for representing
the arts during the modern period, produced within Japan as a form
of cultural nationalism and outside Japan as part of an orientalist
discourse. Practitioners' experiences are in fact rarely referred
to in terms of Zen or art, but instead are spatially and socially
grounded. Combining anthropological description with historical
criticism, Cox shows that the Zen arts are best understood in terms
of a dynamic relationship between an aesthetic discourse on art and
culture and the social and embodied experiences of those who
participate in them.
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