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Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
by Kay Larson
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1594203407
- ISBN 13
- 9781594203404
- Seller
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Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Press, 2012 474 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Goulds Book Arcade
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 168423
- Title
- Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
- Author
- Kay Larson
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594203407
- ISBN 13
- 9781594203404
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, N. Y., U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- [818G LITERATURE NEW AGE MEDITATION SPIRUTALITY ZEN BUDDHISM JOHN CAGE ART ARTIST
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About Goulds Book Arcade
A local, family-run bookshop, Goulds is a member of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA).
Since 1989 Goulds Book Arcade was at the city end of King St, Newtown, but moved in late 2018.
The shop is now located at 536 King St.
That's directly opposite Alice St in south Newtown, near the New Theatre.
If you want to pick up ordered items from the shop please contact us first as the listed items are not stored at the shop.
Since 1989 Goulds Book Arcade was at the city end of King St, Newtown, but moved in late 2018.
The shop is now located at 536 King St.
That's directly opposite Alice St in south Newtown, near the New Theatre.
If you want to pick up ordered items from the shop please contact us first as the listed items are not stored at the shop.
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