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Aesthetic Form
aesthetic nationalism
Aesthetic Register
Aesthetic Vocabulary
anthropological analysis of Zen arts
Author_Rupert Cox
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cultural anthropology Japan
Edo Period
embodied practice
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Product details
- ISBN 9780700714759
- Weight: 710g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment.
This book challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that these texts and images emerged fully as systems for representing the arts during the modern period, produced within Japan as a form of cultural nationalism and outside Japan as part of an orientalist discourse.
Practitioners' experiences are in fact rarely referred to in terms of Zen or art, but instead are spatially and socially grounded. Combining anthropological description with historical criticism, 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.
Rupert A. Cox is a member of the Department of Anthroplogy and the European Japan Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University.
