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The Zen of Seeing: Seeing Drawing as Meditation (Paperback)

by Frederick Franck (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc (19 May 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0394719689
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394719689
  • Product Dimensions: 26.7 x 20.8 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 52,052 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An artist and follower of Zen presents a celebration of nature, people, and the need for self-awareness and intimacy with the visible world.

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Observant Meditation- Melting into the Moment, 29 Nov 1998
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This is a fascinating book that stimulates one to observe the beauty of life's everyday processes and to record these experiences in the form of simpledrawings-- sketches that need not be exact, are often indistinct, yet capture some intricate details to reveal the beauty of nature. This is a very "warm and friendly" book with a very rustic, imaginative style, and is very readable. The expressions in this book have stimulated the interest of almost all who have picked it up- my sons aged 14 and 8, my daughter aged 4, a computer programmer, a cancer patient in the ward, a nurse, and therapist and others from all walks of life - the artist within all of us !
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely book touching the kernel of Art, 14 Dec 2003
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Is art about copying or creativity, has been and eternal question for aesthetes. Frederick Franck joins in this search for the kernel of beauty by using drawing as the means of Zen-meditation. He introduces SEEING/DRAWING as opposed to ‘subjects looking at objects, seeing less and less’.

If you know Zen, you will find in this book one more interesting practical implementation of Zen, like the famous “Zen in the Art of Archery”. If you are a drawing artist or studying to become one, it will teach you that a bird is not an ellipse with head and tail added, but yet another form of your inner being, which you first have to identify yourself with in order to become a silent link of the creative flow. If you are looking for a step-by-step drawing tutorial, you will have to search for some other source.

Franck claims that the artist-within must exist in every man, for if man is created in God’s image, it can only mean that he is created creative. While he admires an old man who says that ‘I am not an artist; I am just copying things’, for him this kind of copying is not the same as consciously trying to make things look the same, but rather becoming part of the process itself. For Franck the inexpressible is the only thing that it is worth while expressing.

I love this book for its sincerity and deep mental approach to the art of drawing. While the book is full of his beautiful creations, Franck stays humble and being true to the Zen tradition he wants to be just a ‘True-Man-With-No-Label’ drawing the ‘Ten Thousand Things’. This book is published handwritten, because, as he says, it is a love letter.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "This book is handwritten - because it is a love letter...", 11 Dec 2005
What astonished me as soon as I opened this book was that every single word is written longhand by the author, no typing at all. Combined with his very personal and direct drawings on every page, there is something here both intimate and yet universal calling to something inside every one of us.
I've never found another book like this.
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Meditation for non-artists and artists alike. What can I say? Perfect. A bible.
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