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The Face of the Buddha (Hardcover)
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The Face of the Buddha (Hardcover)
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Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet
and literary critic William Empson found himself captivated by the
Buddhist sculptures of ancient Japan, and spent the years that
followed in search of similar examples all over Korea, China,
Cambodia, Burma, India, and Ceylon, as well as in the great museums
of the West. Compiling the results of these wide-ranging travels
into what he considered to be one of his most important works,
Empson was heartbroken when he mislaid the sole copy of the
manuscript in the wake of the Second World War. 'The Face of the
Buddha' remained one of the great lost books until its surprise
rediscovery sixty years later, and is published here for the first
time. The book provides an engaging record of Empson's reactions to
the cultures and artworks he encountered during his travels, and
presents experimental theories about Buddhist art that many
authorities of today have found to be remarkably prescient. It also
casts important new light on Empson's other works, highlighting in
particular the affinities of his thinking with that of the
religious and philosophical traditions of Asia. Edited by the
global culture historian Rupert Arrowsmith, this edition comes with
a comprehensive introduction that makes 'The Face of the Buddha' as
accessible to the general reader as it is to the professional
scholar, and is fully illustrated throughout with Empson's original
photographs.
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