Project Gutenberg 2010-11-14 Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details. 193 Hoover, Thomas 1941 76050559 Zen Culture Produced by Al Haines "Zen Culture" by Thomas Hoover is a nonfiction exploration of Zen aesthetics and its influence on various aspects of Japanese art and culture, written in the late 20th century. The book delves into how Zen principles permeate not just traditional art forms but also contemporary design, architecture, and even everyday life, suggesting a seamless connection between the historical and the modern. Hoover investigates Zen's emphasis on direct experience over intellectual analysis, positioning it within the broader spectrum of Japanese thought and culture. At the start of the work, Hoover presents an observation that the Zen arts exhibit striking modernity and a timeless quality, asserting their relevance to contemporary aesthetics. He elaborates on this by discussing how Zen ceramics, calligraphy, architecture, and performance art resonate with modern artistic movements, noting parallels with abstract expressionism and minimalism. The opening section also introduces the notion of 'direct perception' as a key element of Zen, proposing that through the lens of Zen, one can rediscover beauty in simplicity and imperfection in both art and daily activities. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Japan -- Civilization -- Zen influences DS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - General 676436 676280 2024-09-14T11:33:44.740269 2023-09-15T06:35:18.533459 text/html text/html 674305 2010-11-14T13:50:26 text/html; charset=utf-8 425362 2010-11-14T20:36:20 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 478300 2024-09-14T11:33:56.058229 application/epub+zip 486590 2024-09-14T11:33:46.688275 application/epub+zip 3316637 2010-11-14T20:25:28 application/pdf 3122220 2010-11-14T20:36:18 application/pdf application/zip 8997376 2010-11-14T20:23:18 application/msword 8323356 2010-11-14T20:36:20 application/msword application/zip 242463 2024-09-14T11:33:45.566309 application/epub+zip 684002 2024-09-14T11:34:02.692208 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 642290 2024-09-14T11:33:55.111258 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 401577 2022-09-15T15:04:28.046113 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 447917 447913 2024-09-14T11:33:43.215276 2023-09-15T06:35:17.031475 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 449224 2010-11-14T13:50:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 171378 2010-11-14T20:36:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 449223 2010-11-14T13:50:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 171366 2010-11-14T20:36:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23207 2024-09-14T11:34:02.854181 application/rdf+xml 11009 2024-09-14T11:33:45.976260 image/jpeg 2965 2024-09-14T11:33:45.770279 image/jpeg 469374 2024-09-14T11:33:44.832302 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog