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WHERE THE HEART BEATS[qh]
《心在何處跳動》[qh]
In Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists (public library), also one of the best philosophy books of 2012, longtime art critic and practicing BuddhistKay Larson constructs an exceptional intellectual, creative, and spiritual biography of John Cage — one of the most influential composers in modern history, whose impact reaches beyond the realm of music and into art, literature, cinema, and just about every other aesthetic and conceptual expression of curiosity about the world, yet also one of history’s most misunderstood artists. Fifteen years in the making, this superbly researched, exquisitely written tome weaves 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.[qh]
2012年最佳哲學書籍之一的《心在何處跳動——藝術家約翰·凱奇，一位佛教禪宗徒的生活》，是由長期擔任藝術批評家和佛教修行者的凱·拉森撰寫的內容深刻、角度創新、揭示約翰·凱奇精神世界的傳記。約翰·凱奇是現代歷史上最有影響力的作曲家之一，他的影響力跨越了音樂界，遍及藝術、文學、電影及其他各美學領域，還有其他表達對世界好奇探索的概念領域，同時他也是歷史上遭到最多誤解的藝術家之一。歷經15年的研究，廣泛的調查，精準的筆風將文化史上的短篇殘章織補完整，為我們整體展現了一個同時作為藝術家和禪宗徒存在的凱奇。[qh]
