Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting by Yukio Lippit PAPERBACK

Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting\nby Yukio Lippit\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Yukio Lippit\nTitle: Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of art\nPublisher: Getty Trust Publications\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781606065129\nISBN-10: 1606065122\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nZen art poses a conundrum. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism emphasizes the concept of emptiness, which among other things asserts that form is empty, that all phenomena in the world are illusory. On the other hand, a prodigious amount of artwork has been created in association with Zen thought and practice. A wide range of media, genres, expressive modes, and strategies of representation have been embraced to convey the idea o.