Musicage

Author : John Cage,Joan Retallack
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780819571861

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MUSICAGE by John Cage,Joan Retallack Pdf

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 : John Cage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Composers
ISBN : OCLC:1090048055

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Musicage by John Cage Pdf

Author : Jacquelynn Baas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015058741557

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Smile of the Buddha by Jacquelynn Baas Pdf

"The relations between eastern and western cultures have long been a neglected topic, and this careful and intelligent look at a small but significant part of those relations is most welcome."--Thomas McEvilley, author of The Shape of Ancient Thought "How wonderful that Jacquelynn Baas has seen the light of the Buddha's smile shining from faraway Asia into the realm of the art of modern times in what we think of as the West! . . . Her work reveals how some of our most influential artists explored and expressed the sophisticated perceptions and joyful energy emanating from the realm of Buddhist Asia."--Robert A. F. Thurman "As a Buddhist scholar and artist I welcome this thoughtful and richly detailed study of how many aspects of Buddhism have stimulated, invigorated, and enriched Western arts over the past 150 years."--Stephen Addiss, author of The Art of Zen "A crucial contribution to modern art studies, this high-spirited text surveys Western artists awakened by the wisdom of the East, from Monet and Duchamp to O'Keeffe to Martin. It is a thoughtful book about thoughtful artists, their values and their visions, with a lot to offer general readers and specialists alike."--Charles Stuckey, Associate Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Author : Joan Retallack
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520218390

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The Poethical Wager by Joan Retallack Pdf

Annotation The interrelated essays in this book explore the coming together of ethics and poetics in literatures that engage with their contemporary moments to become wagers on the future of meaning. The central concern of The Poethical Wager is the relation of poetics to agency in a chaotic world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555032493

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the educational times, and journal of the college of preceptors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015039833556

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New Art Examiner by Anonim Pdf

The independent voice of the visual arts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555032494

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tyhe educational times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles A. Riley
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : 0874517656

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The Saints of Modern Art by Charles A. Riley Pdf

Asceticism seen as a powerful force in the art and thought of our time.

Author : Rob Haskins
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861899439

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John Cage by Rob Haskins Pdf

American writer, composer, artist, and philosopher John Cage (1912–92) is best known for his experimental composition 4’33,” a musical score in which the performer does not play an instrument during the duration of the piece. The purpose, Cage said, was for the audience to listen to the sounds of the environment around them while the piece was performed. Groundbreaking pieces such as 4’33”, as well as Sonatas and Interludes not only established Cage as a leading figure in the postwar avant-garde movement, but also cemented the enduring controversy surrounding his work. In this new biography, Rob Haskins explores Cage’s radical approach to art and aesthetics and his belief that everyday life and art are one and the same. Scrutinizing Cage’s emphasis on chance over intention, which rejected traditional artistic methods and caused an uproar among his peers, Haskins elucidates the ideas that lay behind these pillars of Cage’s work. Haskins also demystifies the influence of Eastern cultures, particularly Zen Buddhism, on Cage, including his use of the Chinese text I Ching as his standard composition tool in all his work after 1951. Adding to our understanding of the art, music, and ideas of the twentieth century, this book provides an engaging look at a man who continues to challenge and inspire artists worldwide.

Author : Joe Panzner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781628925739

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The Process That Is the World by Joe Panzner Pdf

The Process That Is the World grapples with John Cage not just as a composer, but as a philosopher advocating for an ontology of difference in keeping with the kind posited by Gilles Deleuze. Cage's philosophy is not simply a novel method for composition, but an extensive argument about the nature of reality itself, the construction of subjects within that reality, and the manner in which subjectivity and a self-creative world exist in productive tension with one another. Over the course of the study, these themes are developed in the realms of the ontology of a musical work, performance practices, ethics, and eventually a study of Cagean politics and the connection between aesthetic experience and the generation of new forms of collective becoming-together. The vision of Cage that emerges through this study is not simply that of the maverick composer or the “inventor of genius,” but of a thinker and artist responding to insights about the world-as-process as it extends through the philosophical, artistic, and ethical registers: the world as potential for variance, reinvention, and permanent revolution.

Author : Ming-Qian Ma
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810124837

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Poetry as Re-Reading by Ming-Qian Ma Pdf

Grounded in a detailed and compelling account of the philosophy guiding such a project, Ma's book traces a continuity of thought and practice through the very different poetic work of objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and John Cage and language poets Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and Charles Bernstein. His deft individual readings provide an opening into this notoriously difficult work, even as his larger critique reveals a new and clarifying perspective on American modernist and post-modernist avant-garde poetics. Ma shows how we cannot understand these poets according to the usual way of reading but must see how they deliberately use redundancy, unpredictability, and irrationality to undermine the meaning-oriented foundations of American modernism--and to force a new and different kind of reading."--Pub. desc.

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580465090

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CageTalk by Peter Dickinson Pdf

Revealing unpublished interviews with John Cage and some of his closest colleagues, including Virgil Thomson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pauline Oliveros, Merce Cunningham, and David Tudor.

Author : Adalaide Morris
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469647753

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Sound States by Adalaide Morris Pdf

By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on printed works and rethink the way we read, hear, and talk about literary texts composed after telephones, phonographs, radios, loudspeakers, microphones, and tape recorders became facts of everyday life. The collection's twelve essays focus on earplay in texts by James Joyce, Ezra Pound, H.D., Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Bob Kaufman, Robert Duncan, and Kamau Brathwaite and in performances by John Cage, Caribbean DJ-poets, and Cecil Taylor. From the early twentieth-century soundscapes of Futurist and Dadaist 'sonosphers' to Henri Chopin's electroacoustical audio-poames, the authors argue, these states of sound make bold but wavering statements--statements held only partially in check by meaning. The contributors are Loretta Collins, James A. Connor, Michael Davidson, N. Katherine Hayles, Nathaniel Mackey, Steve McCaffery, Alec McHoul, Toby Miller, Adalaide Morris, Fred Moten, Marjorie Perloff, Jed Rasula, and Garrett Stewart.

Author : Branden Wayne Joseph,Robert Rauschenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262100991

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Random Order by Branden Wayne Joseph,Robert Rauschenberg Pdf

An examination of the artistic development of Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on his relationship with John Cage and his role in the making of the American neo-avant-garde.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3000043

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf