This clear, absorbing, and generously illustrated book on Chinese and Japanese Zen ink paintings is the first on the topic in English in more than a decade. Drawing on Western and Japanese collections, it examines over thirty works, all outstanding examples of their genre. It is also one of the very few books on Zen art whose format allows large-scale reproduction of the original paintings. Outlining the development of Zen in China and Japan, the introductory chapter offers a historical background to Zen painting and goes on to explain the chief characteristics of the kind of painting that is most associated with this school of Buddhism. The remainder of the book provides careful historical and critical commentaries on individual pictures, ranging from Chinese works of the early thirteenth century to Japanese paintings of the early nineteenth. All are illustrated in full, and many are accompanied by dramatic details that afford a close inspection of the brushwork. The...

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