Zen and the Fine Arts
Author: Shinʼichi Hisamatsu
Publisher: Kodansha
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13:
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Zen Art for Meditation
Author: Stewart W. Holmes
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2015-11-03
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1462902979
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about emptiness and silence—the mind-expanding emptiness of Zen painting, and the reverberating silence of haiku poetry. Through imaginative participation in the visions of painters and poets, its readers are led to the realization that, in the author's words, "emptiness, silence, is not nothingness, but fullness. Your fullness." This cultural tradition has informed many distinguished lives and works of art. The work of painters like Niten, Liang K'ai, and Toba, and of painters like Basho, Buson, and Issa reflects the wholeness, spontaneity, and humanity of the Zen vision. Those who desire a glimpse into the world of intuitive contact with nature offered by Zen meditation will find these paintings, commentaries, and haiku poems especially rewarding. They enable the reader to experience the unique power of Zen art—it's capacity to fuse esthetic appreciation, personal intuition, and knowledge of life into one creative event.
Zen and the Fine Arts
Author: Shin'ichi Hisamatsu
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9784770010070
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Zen & Oriental Art
Author: Hugo Munsterberg
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1462904327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
The Art of Twentieth-century Zen
Author: Audrey Yoshiko Seo
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781570624957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is devoted to Zen art as a living tradition. It explores the heart of Zen experience through contemporary Zen art, demonstrating how this time-honored visual form continues to flourish today.
Zen in the Martial Arts
Author: Joe Hyams
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2010-05-05
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0307755509
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."--Samurai Maximum. Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating story, Hyams reveals to you how the daily application of Zen principles not only developed his physical expertise but gave him the mental discipline to control his personal problems-self-image, work pressure, competition. Indeed, mastering the spiritual goals in martial arts can dramatically alter the quality of your life-enriching your relationships with people, as well as helping you make use of all your abilities.
Zen in the Art of Rhetoric
Author: Mark Lawrence McPhail
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780791428030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores relationships between classical and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and their connection to the underlying assumptions at work in Zen Buddhism.
Zen & the Art of the Macintosh
Author: Michael Green
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting
Author: Yukio Lippit
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 1606065122
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Zen Art Book
Author: Stephen Addiss
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 159030747X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
