FROM THE PUBLISHER

Interest in Zen grew in the 1950s as new artistic, philosophical and psychological theories opened up the way for Western artists to explore both interior and exterior landscapes. Zen in the Fifties focuses on the work of John Cage, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Tobey in America, and Yves Klein and Pierre Alechinsky in France, and shows how the ideas, methods, and finished works of these and other artists display affinities with those of the Zen masters.