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The Art of Twentieth-Century Zen by Audrey Yoshiko Seo with Stephen Addiss
A sequel, more or less, to Addiss's The Art Of Zen. It has a similar scheme, and some similar faults. I assumed in the former the tendency towards dismally pointless anecdotes was because that was all there was recorded about the artist, but that can hardly be the excuse for them when the subject is so recent - but here they are again. I kept shouting at this book, things like "Don't be another fucking stupid story without an ending!" but it ignored me.* Very annoying - but its information is good, as are the repros, and the territory is fascinating.
Worth considering: skipping every paragraph with 'once' in the first sentence.