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context: painting > sources
Zen Painting: Brushmarks of Infinity by Yasuichi Awakawa
Chapter titles like 'Nor The Bright Mirror' and 'The Voice of the Stream' should be warning enough, but avoid the opening text section, as it is dreadful and packed with nonsense, too often written in a rhetorical "is it not..." tone. Most of it is pictures with commentary, so I thought it might improve. The writing doesn't. He does have some handy info on the referents of various Zen images, but has absolutely nothing to offer artistically. You won't believe this, but he tries to make one Sengai image from about 200 years ago into some sort of Zen pro-free market anti-communism rant. A deeply bad book, but 139 plates of Zen paintings = not a total loss.