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Nothing and Everything - The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde: 1942 - 1962
By: Ellen Pearlman

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Author: Ellen Pearlman
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781583943632
Publication Date: 2012

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In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the worldand life itselfbecame a legitimate artists tool, aligning with Zen Buddhisms 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 Everything brings 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 the 1960s. Pearlman details the interaction of these American artists with the Japanese Hi Red Center and the multi-installation group Gutai. Back in New York, abstract-expressionist artists founded The Club, which held lectures on Zen and featured Japans first abstract painter, Saburo Hasegawa. And in the literary world, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg were using Buddhism in their search for new forms and visions of their own. These multiple journeys led to startling breakthroughs in artistic and literary styleand influenced an entire generation. Filled with rare photographs and groundbreaking primary source material, Nothing and Everything is the definitive history of this pivotal time for the American arts.

Nothing and Everything, Ellen Pearlman, Evolver Editions, Paperback, 245 Pages, $21.95

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