Kay LarsonVezi magazinul LibrisA 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.
