August 11, 2006

Books

Say Cheese

Smile of the BuddhaEastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to TodayJacquelynn Baas, with a foreword by Robert A. F. ThurmanUniversity of California Press, $45, 312 pp.

Donna Gustafson

In the twenty-first century there remains little doubt that Eastern philosophy and religion have impressed themselves deeply on the consciousness of Western artists. It is a global world, after all, and anyone who knows the work of composer John Cage, installation artist Robert Irwin, painter Ad Reinhardt, or musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson will not be surpris (...)


 

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