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Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting
Yukio Lippit
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Description for Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting
Paperback. "This volume publishes Yukio Lippit's lecture of the same title, held at the Getty Center on 23 September 2014." Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ACBP; AGR; HREZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 214 x 7. Weight in Grams: 188.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
187g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Santa Monica CA, United States
ISBN
9781606065129
SKU
V9781606065129
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About Yukio Lippit
Yukio Lippit is professor of history of art and architecture at Harvard University and the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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