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 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.
Brief biographies of the authors, editors and artists are provided in the book. With artists interviews by Mary Jane Jacob.
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Kimsooja, 김수자, 
LEE Mingwei, 李明維, 
Mariko MORI, 森万里子, 
English
diaspora,  installation,  photography,  performance art,  video art,  Buddhism,  Thailand,  South Korea,  Taiwan,  China,  Japan
2004
280
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anthology
Nowhere from Here: Contemporary Art and Buddhism - Jacquelynn BAAS
Sip My Ocean: Emptiness as inspiration - Mark EPSTEIN
If You Depict a Bird, Give It Space to Fly: On Mind, Meditation, and Art - Eleanor ROSCH
Upper West Side Buddhism - Arthur C. DANTO
Shaping the Unbounded: One Life, One Art - Kav LARSON
No Title - Marcia TUCKER
Intimate, Immediate, Spontaneous, Obvious: Educating the Unknowing Mind - Carol BECKER
Having it Good: Reflections on Engaged Art and Engaged Buddhism - Suzanne LACY
Time and Beauty - Laurie ANDERSON
Fire Down Below and Watering, That's Life: A Buddhist Reader's Response to Marcel Duchamp - LEE Tosi
Seeing the Light: Photography as Buddhist Practice - Stephen BATCHELOR
Reading as a Buddhist - Linda V. BAMBER
In the Space of Art - Mary Jane JACOB
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