Format:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136855511
Series Statement:
Royal Asiatic Society Bks.
Content:
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.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Orientalism -- 2. A World Apart -- 3. The Word and the Body in Practice -- 4. Mimesis and Visuality -- 5. Structuring Relations -- 6. Distinguishing Persons -- 7. Culture as Aesthetic Value -- 8. Cracking Culture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780700714759
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780700714759
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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