Where the Heart Beats John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

Name: Where the Heart Beats John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
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ISBN: 9780143123477

ISBN-10: 0143123475

ISBN-13: 9780143123477

Edition: 2013

Authors: Kay Larson

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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 (TheNew 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 Beatsweaves 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…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Prelude



Mountains are Mountains



D. T. Suzuki



John Cage



Merce Cunningham



Four Walls



Seeking Silence



Mountains are No Longer Mountains



Ego Noise



The Mind of the Way



Heaven and Earth



The Infinity of Being



Zero



Mountains are Again Mountains



Another School



Moving Out from Zero



Indeterminacy



Interpenetration



Coda


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


References


The Maha Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra


Index