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The Third Mind : American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860- 1989

Attribution
Alexandra Munroe ; appendices by Ikuyo Nakagawa
Publication Details
Book, Guggenheim Museum, 2009
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Description
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 illuminates the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literary texts and philosophical concepts on American artistic practices from the late nineteenth century through the present. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Authors
- Munroe, Alexandra
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Subject
Notes
- Published to accompany an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Jan. 30-Apr. 19, 2009
Contents
- Orientalism, South Asia, and the discourse of world religions / Richard King
- Postwar America and the aura of Asia / Harry Harootunian
- Aestheticism and Japan : the cult of the orient / Vivien Greene
- Landscapes of the mind : new conceptions of nature / Kathleen Pyne and D. Scott Atkinson
- Ezra Pound, modern poetry, and dance theater : transliterations / J. Thomas Rimer
- The Asian dimensions of postwar abstract art : calligraphy and metaphysics / Bert Winther-Tamaki
- Buddhism and the neo- avant-garde : cage zen, beat zen, and zen / Alexandra Munroe
- Asian structures in modern composition : music and philosophy / David W. Patterson
- Art of perceptual experience : pure abstraction and ecstatic minimalism / Alexandra Munroe
- Performance art and the experiential present : irregular ways of being / Kristine Stiles
ISBN
- 9780892073832
- 0892073837
- 9780892073849
- 0892073845