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 Author Name: Hisamatsu, Shin'ichi; Tokiwa, Gishin (Translator)
Title: Zen and the Fine Arts
Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Publisher: Tokyo Japan Kodansha International, Ltd. 1982
ISBN Number: 0870115197 / 9780870115196
Seller ID: 2509
There is a 1/2" tear at bottom spine front, two 1" creases at the head of the spine and a small amount of soiling on the bottom edges. Otherwise, the book is in very good condition, with minimal shelf wear and clean/unmarked pages. ; B&W Photographs; 1.25 x 9 x 11.25 inches ; 400 pages; In the long history of Japanese fine arts, only one expression has a pure, spiritual foundation -- this is Zen art. Today, with form and technique as art's most important concerns, its spiritual quality is almost forgotten. Especially in the world of Buddhist art, the intangible quality of Zen religious ideas and experience has made a direct understanding of their artistic expression difficult. What is it in art that comes from and touches the human spirit -- that expresses infinite meaning without form and convention? This is the first book to disclose the spiritual relationship between Zen and the fine arts and show its intrinsic meaning. Dr. Shin'ici Hisamatsu, the late professor of religion and Buddhism at Kyoto University was one of the foremost scholars in both the fields of Zen and art in Japan. Dr. Hisamatsu presents here 293 art objects representing the creative essence of the unique, Oriental complex of cultural expressions that arose from a single source, Zen awakening. The author's clearly defined Seven Characteristics of Zen art open up a new world of aesthetic and spiritual experience. One critic has stated about the now rare and much sought Japanese edition that the world of Zen art would have remained closed and obscured without this book. These masterpieces of painting, calligraphy, architecture and gardens, the No drama, tea ceremony utensils and ceramics are all part of or were "chosen" by Zen. In these works, man's limitless spirit finds expression within the confines of art. At the same time, Zen itself is revealed as a creative force that still infuses the life and culture of Japan.
0870115197 Hisamatsu, Shin'ichi Tokiwa, Gishin Zen Art Painting Calligraphy Architecture Gardens
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