The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 illuminates the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literary texts and philosophical concepts on American artistic practices from the late nineteenth century through the present. Released to accompany a major survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Third Mind traces how the classical arts of India, China and Japan and the systems of Hindu, Taoist, Tantric Buddhist and Zen Buddhist thought that were collectively admired as the "East" were known, reconstructed and transformed by American cultural, intellectual and political forces. Featuring 270 objects in an array of media including painting, works on paper, books and ephemera, sculptures, video art and installations, this richly illustrated catalogue also includes scholarly essays by museum curators and academics specializing in art history, intellectual history, Asian studies and Postcolonial religious and cultural studies and representing a range of interdisciplinary perspectives.
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About the Author:
Alexandra Munroe is Samsung Senior Curator, Asian Art at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Vivien Greene is Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art at the Guggenheim Museum. "Kristine Stiles is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University and the co-editor of Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. Her forthcoming publications include Uncorrupted Joy: Art Actions, History, and Social Value, Correspondence Course: Selected Letters of Carolee Schneemann and her Circle, and Concerning Consequences: Performance Art and Survival in Cultures of Trauma."
Review:
This intelligent sojourn into transpacific culture appeals as broadly as the sprawling topic it covers; of great interest to students of art history, music theory and composition, peripatetic culture wanderers, and aesthetes in general. --Douglas F. Smith, Berkeley PL, CA
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- PublisherGuggenheim Museum
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0892073837
- ISBN 13 9780892073832
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages440
- EditorMunroe Alexandra
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