Nothing and Everything - the Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde 1942 - 1962

Name: Nothing and Everything - the Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde 1942 - 1962
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ISBN: 9781583943632

ISBN-10: 1583943633

ISBN-13: 9781583943632

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ellen Pearlman

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In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in the now. Simultaneously and independently, parallel movements were occurring in Japan, as artists there, too, strove to break down artistic boundaries. Nothing and Everythingbrings these heady times into focus. Author Ellen Pearlman 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…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.26" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Ellen Pearlman has been a Buddhist practitioner for over 30 years under Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and has studied with Buddhist teachers in India, Sikhim, Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Europe, Latin America, and North America. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.



Introduction



Philosophical and Spiritual Foundations




Experimental Composition and Time-Based Performance




Fluxus, Happenings, Judson, and Japan



New York Ascending: The Founding of The Club



The Trinity: Saburo Hasegawa, Isamu Noguchi, and Franz Kline



The Beats: Remember the Tea


Conclusions



Daisetsu Teitaro Suzukiï¿½Teaching History (United States, 1949-1957)



Employment Record of D.T. Suzuki from Columbia University



The Kosen and Harada Lineages in American Zen



List of Artists in Abstract Art around the World Today at the Museum of Modern Art, March 16, 1954



Gutai Journals in Jackson Pollock's Library



Announcement by It is Magazine, February 8, 1965



Mission of Bokubi


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author