Long Strange Journey: On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments 9780824858087

Long Strange Journey presents the first critical analysis of visual objects and discourses that animate Zen art modernis

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Table of contents :
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

Long Strange Journey: On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments
 9780824858087

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