John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics

by Peter Jaeger

Book Overview

John Cage was among the first wave of post-war American artists and intellectuals to be influenced by Zen Buddhism and it was an influence that led him to become profoundly engaged with our current ecological crisis. In John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics, Peter Jaeger asks: what did Buddhism mean to Cage? And how did his understanding of Buddhist philosophy impact on his representation of nature? Following Cage's own creative innovations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441117520
• ISBN13: 9781441117526
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"