The third mind
Subtitle: American artists contemplate Asia, 1860-1989
By: Alexandra Munroe ; appendices by Ikuyo Nakagawa
Contributors: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum; D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor]
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780892073832; 9780892073849
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: American Art; Exhibitions; Oriental influences; Asian Arts; Influence; Asian Philosophy; Artistic Photography; Photography; History
Description: "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 illuminates the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literature and philosophy to American creative culture spanning the early modern through contemporary periods. It documents how the visual and conceptual langauge of American art evolved through a process of appropriation and integration that runs consistently from the 1860s to the 1980s, when globalization came to eclipse earlier, more deliberate modes of cultural transmission. Opening with the late nineteenth- century Aesthetic movement that arose from Boston's transcendentalist circles, this chronological and thematic history reveals the Asian courses that also shaped abstract art, Conceptual art, Minimalism and the neo-avant-garde as they unfolded in New York and on the West Coast." "This illustrated catalogue features essays by leading scholars in art history, history, Asian studies, and postcolonial religions and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Published to accompany an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Jan. 30-Apr. 19, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-437).
Table of contents: title: Project Team --; title: The Third Mind: An Introduction  -- Alexandra Munoe; title: Orientalism, South Asia, and the Discourse of World Religions  -- Richard King; title: Postwar America and the Aura of Asia  -- Harry Harootunian; title: Aestheticism and Japan: The Cult of the Orient  -- Vivien Greene; title: Landscapes of the Mind: New Conceptions of Nature  -- Kathleen Pyne and Scott Atkinson; title: Ezra Pound, Modern Poetry, and Dance Theater: Transliterations  -- J. Thomas Rimer; title: The Asian Dimensions of Postwar Abstract Art: Calligraphy and Metaphysics  -- Bert Winther-Tamaki; title: Buddhism and the Neo-Avant-Garde: Cage Zen, Beat Zen, and Zen  -- Alexandra Munroe; title: Asian Structures in Modern Composition: Music and Philosophy  -- David W. Patterson; title: Art of Perceptual Experience: Pure Abstraction and Ecstatic Minimalism  -- Alexandra Munroe; title: Performance Art and the Experiential Present: Irregular Ways of Being -- Kristine Stiles /-- Edited by Ikuyo Nakagawa and Ikuyo Nakagawa and Ikuyo Nakagawa.