TY  - GEN
AU  - Cox, Rupert A
TI  - The Zen arts: an anthropological study of the culture of aesthetic form in Japan 
T2  - Royal Asiatic Society books
SN  - 0700714758
AV  - DS821 .C69 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - RoutledgeCurzon in association with The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
KW  - Zen art
KW  - Japan
KW  - Zen Buddhism
KW  - Aesthetics, Japanese
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Zen influences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-271) and index; 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
ER  -