{"product_id":"where-the-heart-beats-isbn-9780143123477","title":"Where the Heart Beats","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “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 (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComposer 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,” \u003ci\u003eWhere the Heart Beats\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together “a great many threads of cultural history” (Maria Popova, \u003ci\u003eBrain Pickings\u003c\/i\u003e) 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.’ \u003ci\u003eWhere the Heart Beats \u003c\/i\u003eshows the blossoming of Zen in the very heart of American culture.\u003cb\u003e“Heroic… fascinating.” \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Inspirational… exuberant.” \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Revelatory… \u003ci\u003eWhere the Heart Beats\u003c\/i\u003e may not just be \u003cb\u003ethe best book written yet about John Cage\u003c\/b\u003e; it’s probably also one of the most substantive-yet-readable entryways into the nexus of 20th-century American art and the immortal qualities of Eastern thought… \u003cb\u003eone of the most profound, not to mention unexpected, gifts imaginable.\u003c\/b\u003e\"--\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Absorbing… no future commentator on Cage's work or influence will be able to ignore Larson's contribution…\u003cb\u003ea milestone in contemporary cultural criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\" --San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eRemarkable… without a doubt the richest, most stimulating, most absorbing book I’ve read in the past year, if not decade\u003c\/b\u003e — remarkably researched, exquisitely written, weaving together a great many threads of cultural history into a holistic understanding of both Cage as an artist and Zen as a lens on existence… Not unlike Cage’s music, \u003ci\u003eWhere the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists\u003c\/i\u003e is impossible to distill, to synthesize, to relay. Rather, its goodness is best experienced in full, with complete surrender. \"--\u003ci\u003eBrain Pickings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Strange and wonderful... \u003cb\u003ea gloriously rich reading experience\u003c\/b\u003e, studded with layers upon layers of deeply inspiring and endlessly fascinating paths. \u003cb\u003eOne of the best books of the year\u003c\/b\u003e in any category.\" --NPR.org (\u003cb\u003eA Favorie Music Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eKay Larson\u003c\/b\u003e was the the art critic for \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e for fourteen years and has been a frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1994, she entered Zen practice at a Buddhist monastery in upstate New York.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301418619109,"sku":"NP9780143123477","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143123477.jpg?v=1767744056","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/where-the-heart-beats-isbn-9780143123477","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}