ZEN, TAO Y UKIYOE. Horizontes de inspiración artística contemporánea

Zusammenfassung

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”.