Library Item: 195506571
Nothing and everything: the influence of Buddhism on the American avant garde: 1942 - 1962
2012
Meticulously traces the spread of Buddhist ideas into the art world through the classes of legendary scholar D. T. Suzuki as well as those of his most famous student, composer and teacher John Cage, from whose teachings sprouted the art movement Fluxus and the “happenings” of the 1960s. Contents: D.T. Suzuki: Philosophical and Spiritual Foundations -- John Cage: Experimental Composition and Time-Based Performance -- Fluxus, Happenings, Judson, and Japan -- New York Ascending: The Founding of the Club -- The Trinity: Saber Hasegawa, Isamu Noguchi, and Franz Kline -- The Beat: Remember the Tea.
EVOLVER EDITIONS, 2012
BMCC Not
9781583943632
1583943633
1583943633
8.95 x 6.03 x 0.64 inches
Gift of Julie J. Thomson