Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
by Larson, Kay
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- ISBN 10
- 1594203407
- ISBN 13
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NY: Penguin Press, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 474 pages, b&w illustrations. "A “heroic” and “fascinating” biography of John Cage showing how his work, and that of countless American artists, was transformed by Zen Buddhism". (The New York Times). Where the Heart Beats is the story of the tremendous changes sweeping through American culture following the Second World War, a time when the arts in America broke away from centuries of tradition and reinvented themselves. Painters converted their canvases into arenas for action and gesture, dancers embraced pure movement over narrative, performance artists staged “happenings” in which anything could happen, poets wrote words determined by chance. Record # 383606
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A “heroic” biography of John Cage and his “awakening through Zen Buddhism”—“a kind of love story” about a brilliant American pioneer of the creative arts who transformed himself and his culture ( The New York Times ) Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself—and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. “Remarkably researched, exquisitely written,” Where the Heart Beats weaves together “a great many threads of cultural history” (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings ) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Allan Kaprow, Morton Feldman, and Leo Castelli were among those influenced by his ‘teaching’ and ‘preaching.’ Where the Heart Beats shows the blossoming of Zen in the very heart of American culture.
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- Title
- Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
- Author
- Larson, Kay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1594203407
- ISBN 13
- 9781594203404
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- music, Philosophy, , .
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- Music;
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