Description: Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art First Edition APPEARS UNREAD - COVER HAS LIGHT WEAR ISBN-100520243463ISBN-13978-0520243460 Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art documents the growing presence of Buddhist perspectives in contemporary culture. This shift began in the nineteenth century and is now pervasive in many aspects of everyday experience. In the arts especially, the increasing importance of process over product has promoted a profound change in the relationship between artist and audience. But while artists have been among the most perceptive interpreters of Buddhism in the West, art historians and critics have been slow to develop the intellectual tools to analyze the impact of Buddhist concepts. This timely, multi-faceted volume explores the relationships between Buddhist practice and the contemporary arts in lively essays by writers from a range of disciplines and in revealing interviews with some of the most influential artists of our time. Elucidating the common ground between the creative mind, the perceiving mind, and the meditative mind, the contributors tackle essential questions about the relationship of art and life.Among the writers are curators, art critics, educators, and Buddhist commentators in psychology, literature, and cognitive science. They consider the many Western artists today who recognize the Buddhist notion of emptiness, achieved through focused meditation, as a place of great creative potential for the making and experiencing of art. The artists featured in the interviews, all internationally recognized, include Bill Viola, Ernesto Pujol, and Ann Hamilton. Extending earlier twentieth-century aesthetic interests in blurring the boundaries of art and life, the artists view art as a way of life, a daily practice, in ways parallel to that of the Buddhist practitioner. Their works, woven throughout the book, richly convey how Buddhism has been both a source for and a lens through which we now perceive art.
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Release Year: 2004
Original Language: English
Book Title: Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Topic: Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / Religious
Publication Year: 2004
Item Height: 1.1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Religion
Item Weight: 33.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.8 in
Author: Carol Becker
Item Width: 7.6 in
Format: Hardcover
