Zen Arts
Subtitle: An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan (Royal Asiatic Society Books)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: January 7, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780700714759
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; General; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; Sociology; Japan; Anthropology - General; Buddhism - Zen; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Eastern - Zen; History & Surveys - General; Zen
First sentence: This book is about that community of individuals who practise a group of activities sometimes referred to in English as the 'Zen arts', and addresses the idea, that these activities are aesthetic expressions of 'Japanese culture'.
Description: "Combining anthropological description with historical criticism, Rupert 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."--BOOK JACKET.