Every Day is a Good Day: The Visual Art of John Cage

Цена 19.80 - 34.74 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781853322839


Издатель Hayward Publishing

Страниц 160

Год выпуска 2010

One of the twentieth century"s most influential and iconoclastic protagonists, John Cage may be described not so much as a composer, artist and author, as a thinker who applied his ideas equivalently to sound, visual art and writing. As with his music, the use of chance operations - in particular via the Chinese Book of Changes, or I Ching - was central to Cage"s approach to visual art, determining technique, the placement of forms and even tonal values. "Every Day is a Good Day: The Visual Art of John Cage" provides the first broad assessment of Cage"s art, and is fully illustrated with plates of his drawings, watercolors and prints, including series such as Where R=Ryoanji (1983-92). Cage"s working methods and philosophies are brought to light in new interviews with key collaborators: printmaker and writer Kathan Brown, founder of Crown Point Press; Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust; artist Ray Kass; and Julie Lazar, curator of Cage"s composition for a museum,...