[silence] The Zen Ox-Herding Pictures

[Joseph Zitt]

>From Publisher's Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6637936.html?rssid=192

Braziller to Publish Previously Unseen Cage Images
By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 2/17/2009 9:47:00 AM

This fall, New York independent George Braziller Publishers will
release John Cage: The Zen Ox-Herding Pictures. At first glance, the
book may not seem unusual for the independent press, known for
international literature and books on architecture. But the book has
some unusual attributes: it features 54 previously unseen works by
artist and composer Cage (1912–1992) that will be made public for the
first time, and its publication coincides with a recent Guggenheim
exhibition that highlighted Cage as a major influence in American art.

Editor Maxwell Heller said Professor Stephen Addiss of the University
of Richmond and Professor Ray Kass of Virginia Tech University brought
the project—which originally consisted of 50 of Cage's
never-before-seen watercolor images from a 1988 Mountain Lake Workshop
(organized by Kass in Virginia) with fragments of his Zen poetry and
excerpts from his lectures on Zen thought—to Braziller. In recent
years, the published has focused on Asian art titles, including The
Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido, which was covered by the New
York Times Book Review and received praise from PW—so the collection
of Cage's watercolor sketches, which he created in 1988, were of
exceptional interest.

The timing was good, too: the Guggenheim exhibition The Third Mind:
American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989, which is running in New
York now through April, devotes considerable space to discussing
Cage's work and influence. Additionally, an exhibition of Cage's work,
organized by London's Southbank Centre of the Hayward, will travel
throughout the UK in late 2009 and early 2010, following several Cage
exhibitions organized by the University of Richmond Museums here in
the U.S.

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