Smile of the Buddha Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today

Name: Smile of the Buddha Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today
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ISBN: 9780520242081

ISBN-10: 0520242084

ISBN-13: 9780520242081

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jacquelynn Baas, Robert Thurman

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"Smile of the Buddha explores the influences of Asian world-views and particularly Buddhism on the art of Europe and America in the modern era. In an informative and perceptive introduction and essays on twenty well-known artists, Jacquelynn Baas analyzes how the teachings of the Buddha offered alternatives to Western intellectual conceptions of art and traces the various ways this inspiration materialized in artworks. The influence of Buddhism on art from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present has been greater than historians and critics generally recognize, Baas claims. Considering essential questions about the relationship of art and life, this timely and beautifully…

Book details

List price: $58.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/14/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 310
Size: 0.87" wide x 1.13" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English

Jacquelynn Baas is director emeritus of the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She previously served as director of the Hood Museum of Art and is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous publications.



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Infinite Moment




Other Dimensions




The Space Of Art




The Sound Of The Mind




Light And Insight



Notes


References


Index