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“Dean, like Twombly, is fixated with time,” The Guardian in 2011. “She has photographed a ruined modernist house on an overgrown island, filmed nuns eking out their days in a dying religious community, and recorded the last days of a Kodak factory.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/arts/design/tacita-dean-drawings-twombly-menil.html
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation, ed. Carole Tonkinson. New York: Berkley, 1995.
Jack Kerouac • The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Haiku and waka poems convey perhaps more easily than painting the subtle differences between the four moods of sabi, wabi, aware, and yugen.
Alan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
After meeting author and mythologist Joseph Campbell and composer John Cage in New York he headed to California and began teaching at the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco. There his popular lectures spilled over into coffeehouse talks and appearances with the well-known beat writers Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg. I
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In his Life as Art: Aesthetics and the Creation of Self (2012),
Zachary Simpson defines "life as art" as follows:
[it] is the persistent attempt to actualize the aesthetic in and
through one's living, seeing and thinking. This means
integrating the essence of the work of art into how one shapes
the contours and dimensions of one's being ... what emerge
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his draft fell to Mi-t’uo-shan, a monk from the Silk Road kingdom of Tokhara, who was assisted by the Chinese monks Fu-li and Fa-tsang.