Greg Levine
A historian of the art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures, Gregory Levine is Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is at work on a trilogy examining modern-contemporary Buddhist visual cultures: Long Strange Journey: On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments (forthcoming, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017); Buddha Heads: Fragment and Landscapes; and Other Buddhas: Race, War, and Buddhist Visual Culture. He then plans a study of tachikibutsu (living tree icons) in Japan in relation to eco art history and the Anthropocene/Capitaloscene. An editorial board member of Artibus Asiae, Journal of Art Historiography, and Monumenta Nipponica, he has reviewed manuscripts for the University of Washington Press, University of Hawai‘i Press, The Art Bulletin, and Artibus Asiae. A member of the Groups in Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley, his graduate seminars have examined the Zen monastery Daitokuji; portraiture in Japan; the formation of art history in modern Japan; art forgery and authenticity; the fragment in art; the visual cultures of Buddhist modernism; and eco art history. His lecture courses include surveys of the art and architecture of Japan; Buddhist temples and icons in Japan; global Buddhist visual cultures; and painting in Japan. Undergraduate seminars have focused on Zen painting and calligraphy; collecting Japanese art in the West; plunder, iconoclasm, and forgery; and artists responding to Japan’s 3/11 disasters.
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