Long Strange Journey : : On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments / / Gregory P. A. Levine.

Long Strange Journey presents the first critical analysis of visual objects and discourses that animate Zen art modernism and its legacies, with particular emphasis on the postwar "Zen boom." Since the late nineteenth century, Zen and Zen art have emerged as globally familiar terms associa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 46 b&w illustrations, 9 color plates
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments and Note to Readers
  • Introduction: Walking The Zen-Scape
  • 1. Zen Art Before Nothingness
  • 2. Making Zen Modern: D. T. Suzuki
  • 3. Danxia Burns A Buddha: Zen And The Art Of Iconoclasm
  • 4. The Look And Logos Of Zen Art
  • 5. Zen-Boom "Culture Wars"
  • 6. Zen Influence, Inherence, And Denial: Reconsidering Postwar Zen And Art
  • 7. What'S So Funny? Zen Cartoons, Zen Humor, And Bodhi-Characters
  • 8. Zen Sells
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Character Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index