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Author : John Cage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015033990170
A superb introduction to the work of John Cage, celebrated minimalist composer, who died in 1992, aged 79 years. Printed in the style requested by the author, this book summarises his major works in one volume.
Author : John Cage
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 0819563137
Cage's contribution to Harvard's prestigious Norton Lecture Series in 1988-89. More like performances than lectures, these six mesotics - a complex horizontal arrangement of text to form vertical letter sequences that spell out key word- a kind of meticulously choreographed anarchy in which choce and chance join to redefine the concepts of meaning and meaningfulness.
Author : Dean Anthony Brink
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793627919
Focusing on literary language in popular media and performative venues, this book demonstrates how poetry is capable of meeting the challenges of calling out institutional entitlements and embodying change. Examining emergent communities, the author shows how contemporary poetry implicates itself in social and ecological relations or risks irrelevancy.
Author : Jann Pasler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190295929
Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters. In an extraordinary collection of historical and critical essays, some appearing for the first time in English, Pasler deconstructs the social, moral, and political preoccupations lurking behind aesthetic taste. Arguing that learning from musical experience is vital to our understanding of past, present, and future, Pasler's work trenchantly reasserts the role of music as a crucial contributor to important public debates about who we can be as individuals, communities, and nations. The author's wide-ranging and perceptive approaches to musical biography and history challenge us to rethink our assumptions about important cultural and philosophical issues including national identity and postmodern musical hybridity, material culture, the economics of power, and the relationship between classical and popular music. Her work uncovers the self-fashioning of modernists such as Vincent d'Indy, Augusta Holmès, Jean Cocteau, and John Cage, and addresses categories such as race, gender, and class in the early 20th century in ways that resonate with experiences today. She also explores how music uses time and constructs narrative. Pasler's innovative and influential methodological approaches, such as her notion of "question-spaces," open up the complex cultural and political networks in which music participates. This provides us with the reasons and tools to engage with music in fresh and exciting ways. In these thoughtful essays, music--whether beautiful or cacophonous, reassuring or seemingly incomprehensible--comes alive as a bearer of ideas and practices that offers deep insights into how we negotiate the world. Jann Pasler's Writing through Music brilliantly demonstrates how music can be a critical lens to focus the contemporary critical, cultural, historical, and social issues of our time.
Author : Jannika Bock
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music and philosophy
ISBN : 363158413X
«Reading Thoreau's Journal, I discover any idea I've ever had worth its salt, » notes the American composer John Cage in 1968. Upon reading the words of nineteenth-century nature philosopher Henry Thoreau, Cage is immediately fascinated with the Transcendentalist's ideas, in particular his views on music and silence. Recognizing his own beliefs in Thoreau's writings, Cage began to rely heavily on the thoughts of the nineteenth-century man and implement them as the basis for his own compositions - both musical and written. Drawing on the complete oeuvres of Cage's and Thoreau's written works, this book surveys the intertextual relation between the writings of the two men. In the juxtaposition of these authors' aesthetics, this book reveals surprising overlaps in the thoughts of Cage and Thoreau.
Author : John Cage,Joan Retallack
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780819571861
The pioneering composer and music theorist makes his final on the totality of his work and thought in these three wide-ranging dialogues. “I was obliged to find a radical way to work ― to get at the real, at the root of the matter,” John Cage says in this trio of dialogues, completed just days before his death. This quest led him beyond the bounds of convention in all his musical, written, and visual pieces. The resulting expansion of the definition of art earned him a reputation as one of America's most influential contemporary artists. Joan Retallack's conversations with Cage explore his artistic production in its entirety. Cage's comments range from his theories of chance and indeterminate composition to his long-time collaboration with Merce Cunningham to the aesthetics of his multimedia works. In her comprehensive introduction, Retallack describes Cage’s lifelong project as “dislodging cultural authoritarianism and gridlock by inviting surprising conjunctions within carefully delimited frameworks and processes.” Consummate performer to the end, Cage delivers here just such a conjunction ― a tour de force that provides new insights into the man and a clearer view of the status of art in the twentieth century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103013868
Author : William Braithwaite,James Braithwaite,Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Medicine
ISBN : CHI:78911434
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015062324655
Author : Oliver Herford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191054013
Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned from the observation of contemporary manners to biographical commemoration and autobiographical reminiscence, and the balance of his output gradually shifted from fiction to non-fiction. The 'late personal writings' of the book's subtitle are works of retrospective non-fiction. They are a varied group, representing a broad array of genres and occasions: commemorative essays and obituary tributes, textual revisions and accounts of revisiting familiar places, cultural and literary criticism, biography and autobiography, and family memoir. Oliver Herford proposes that we read the late personal writings as a coherent sequence, bound together by a close texture of cross-references and allusive echoes, and united by James's newly discovered sense for the literary possibilities of non-fiction. Closely analyzing the style of these writings, this study offers a boldly revisionist account of the way style itself challenges and preoccupies the very late James. A linked series of innovative close readings takes the major works of this period in sequence, addressing a key point of style in each: particular attention is paid to procedures of reference (to the historical past, to real persons and places and objects), a dimension of style often neglected and sometimes actively slighted in analyses of James's late work. Henry James's Style of Retrospect asks what it means for so distinguished a novelist to alter the foundations of his written manner so strikingly in late life, and shows how we may begin to reconfigure our understanding of late Jamesian aesthetics accordingly.
Author : Marjorie Perloff,Charles Junkerman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226660575
John Cage: Composed in America is the first book-length work to address the "other" John Cage, a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America. Cage, as these original essays testify, is a contradictory figure. A disciple of Duchamp and Schoenberg, Satie and Joyce, he created compositions that undercut some of these artists' central principles and then attributed his own compositional theories to their "tradition." An American in the Emerson-Thoreau mold, he paradoxically won his biggest audience in Europe. A freewheeling, Californian artist, Cage was committed to a severe work ethic and a firm discipline, especially the discipline of Zen Buddhism.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015073477922
Author : Neil A. Weiss,Peg Weiss,Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300056471
Vasilii Kandinsky, whom many consider to be the father of abstract painting, was also a trained ethnographer with an abiding interest in the folklore of Old Russia. In this provocative book, Peg Weiss provides an entirely new interpretation of Kandinsky's art by examining for the first time how this commitment to his ethnic Russian heritage influenced the painter's work throughout his career.