Publisher's description: 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 Maya Lin, Bill Viola, 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.
Buddha mind in contemporary art
Format:
Book
Publication Year:
2004
Publisher:
University of California Press
Place of Publication:
Berkeley
Sources ID:
22530
Visibility:
Private
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Buddhist Contemplation by Applied Subject, Socially Engaged Buddhism, Buddhist Contemplation by Tradition, Contemplation by Applied Subject, Contemplation by Tradition, Art and Buddhist Contemplation, Photography and Buddhist Contemplation, Art and Contemplation, Visual art and Buddhist Contemplation, Buddhist Contemplation
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Buddhist Contemplation by Tradition
Buddhist Contemplation by Applied Subject
Socially Engaged Buddhism
Photography and Buddhist Contemplation
Art and Contemplation
Buddhist Contemplation
Contemplation by Applied Subject
Art and Buddhist Contemplation
Contemplation by Tradition