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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.730904
EAN num: 9780520243460
ISBN number: 0520243463
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Page Count: 280
Printing Date: December 13, 2004
Publishing house: University of California Press
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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 yesterday 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, 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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Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art is such an extraordinary book that, as an art critic, I can only applaud its editors, Jacquelynn Baas and Mary Jane Jacob, as well as the writers who participated in its creation. The innovative concept of exploring artistic responses to, or reflections on, Buddhist philosophy and practices, has been dealt with thorough care and inclusiveness.
The artist interviews in the second section of the book open up a deeper understanding and awareness of contemporary visual artists. Happily, the emphasis is on artists, who have achieved a significant amount of international recognition for their work. What has been less well known, and what this book so admirably illuminates, are the links between their artwork and Buddhist thought.
I would highly recommend this book for artists in all disciplines as a potential source of inspiration for their own artwork. Educators, and all those interested in contemporary culture and the arts, would find much food for thought in the essays and the many colour images.
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