Cabañas Moreno Pilar y Matilde Rosa Arias Estévez. ZEN, TAO Y UKIYOE. Horizontes de inspiración artística contemporánea. Gijón: Satori Arte, pp. 368. ISBN: 978-84-17419-63-9
Abstract
We take literally the words included by the authors in the presentation of the book, the synthesis that they themselves make of the content of the essay, which is then unfolded over almost four hundred pages.
“Tao, Zen gardens, ink painting, calligraphy, haikus or Hokusai's The Great Wave are at the origin of the avant-garde movements of the 20th century, of modern architecture, of the performances of such iconic artists like Marina Abramović or Yoko Ono or the urban art of Banksy.
Corseted by nineteenth-century academicism, Western artists needed a new language to express the contemporary imaginary and found it in the fusion of the artistic avant-garde with the philosophy, aesthetics and centuries-old traditions of East Asia, which breathed new life into artistic creativity. from the West. Pilar Cabañas and Matilde Arias trace these creative interactions and offer us a multidisciplinary and detailed investigation of the decisive influence that Taoism, Zen Buddhism and ukiyo-e have exerted on the artistic representations of the West”.
Downloads
Article download
Crossmark
License
In order to support the global exchange of knowledge, the journal Mirai. Estudios Japoneses is allowing unrestricted access to its content as from its publication in this electronic edition, and as such it is an open-access journal. The originals published in this journal are the property of the Complutense University of Madrid and any reproduction thereof in full or in part must cite the source. All content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 use and distribution licence (CC BY 4.0). This circumstance must be expressly stated in these terms where necessary. You can view the summary and the complete legal text of the licence.
