Where the Heart Beats
John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 474 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Assesses the influence of Zen Buddhism on the work of composer John Cage, exploring the ways in which Zen transformed Cage's troubled psyche, his relationship with partner Merce Cunningham, and his often indefinable music.
Contents:
D.T. Suzuki -- John Cage -- Merce Cunningham -- Four walls -- Seeking silence -- Ego noise -- The mind of the way -- Heaven and earth -- The infinity of being -- Zero -- Another school -- Moving out from zero -- Indeterminacy -- Interpenetration -- Coda.
Subjects:
Cage, John -- Criticism and interpretation.
Cage, John -- Influence.
Postmodernism.
Zen Buddhism -- Influence.
Cage, John -- Criticism and interpretation.
Cage, John -- Influence.
Postmodernism.
Zen Buddhism -- Influence.
ISBN:
1594203407
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ART Cag | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [453]-460) and index.