Cox, Rupert A <br/><br/>
The Zen arts :  an anthropological study of the culture of aesthetic form in Japan / 
Rupert A. Cox. 
 - x, 278 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm 
 - Royal Asiatic Society books .
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<br/><br/>Japan, the Zen arts and myself -- Orientalism-an idea and an ideal of Japan -- A world apart-ascetic reclusion and aesthetic enchantment in the history of the Zen arts -- The word and the body in practice-aesthetics as form and as experience -- Mimesis and visuality-the imitation and imagination of aesthetic value -- Structuring relations-The power of person and place -- Distinguishing persons-The code of an for becoming a practitioner -- Culture as aesthetic value-Ideological dispositions and commercial affiliations in the Zen arts -- Cracking culture-Authenticity is a cultural choice. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0700714758 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA1-Y0923 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Zen art--Japan<br/>Zen Buddhism--Japan<br/>Aesthetics, Japanese
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Civilization--Zen influences
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS821  / .C69 2003