Silence (Lectures and Writings)

Arts & Photography

CAGE, JOHN

Music

MIT Press]

Published in separate German (Kunsthalle Bremen) and English editions to accompany a 2002 exhibition appearing at the Kunsthalle Bremen (Bremen, Germany) and the Museum of Glass (Tacoma, Washington), this catalog includes the artists' works as well as interpretive and biographical essays. The three artists were friends and collaborators linked by their connections with the Pacific Northwest, their appellation as Northwest Mystics, and, more deeply, by their shared artistic concerns. John Cage composer, philosopher, writer, and visual artist wrote extensively about Tobey and Graves, and his writings are included here as well. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Sounds of the Inner Eye: John Cage, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves

Tobey, Mark

Graves, Morris

Kunsthalle Bremen

Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art

Individual Artists

Univ of Washington Pr

American painter Morris Graves (1910 - 2001) was one of the earliest Modern painters. He adopted certain elements of Chinese and Japanese art, including the use of thin paper and ink drawing. Throughout his life, Morris Graves lived in remote settings, drawing inspiration from the close observation of nature and imbuing his subjects.

The drawings of Morris Graves: With Comments By the Artist

Daniels, David

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

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Silence: Lectures and Writings

Marion Boyars

Without doubt the most influential American composer of the last half century, John Cage has had an enormous impact not only on music but on art, literature, the performing arts, and aesthetic thought in general. His insistent exploration of “nonintention” and his fruitful merging of Western and Eastern traditions have made him a powerful force in the world of the avant-garde.
There have never been lectures like these: delivered at Harvard in 1988–89 as the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, they were more like performances, as the audience heard them. Cage calls them “mesostics,” a literary form generated by chance (in this case computerized I-Ching chance) operations. Using the computer as an oracle in conjunction with a large source text, he happens upon ideas, which produce more ideas. Chance, and not Cage, makes the choices and central decisions. Such a form is rooted, Cage tells us in his introduction, in the belief that “all answers answer all questions.”
Acting as a kind of counterpoint to the six texts here are transcripts (edited by Cage) of the provocative question-and-answer seminars that followed each presentation. Included with the book are two audiocassettes, one of Cage reading a mesostic (IV), allowing the listener to experience it as it was delivered, and one with a lively selection from the question-and-answer seminars that conveys the flavor of the event. The illustrations consist of fifteen different chance-determined prints from a single negative by Robert Mahon of the first autograph page of Cage’s Sixteen Dances (1951).
I–VI is, in short, an experience of John Cage, where silences become words and words become silences, in arrangements that will disconcert and exercise our minds.

I-VI (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1988-89)

Computers & Technology

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

I–VI (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

John Cage (Documentary Monograph)

Kostelanetz, Richard

Allen Lane.

M: Writings, 1967-72

Literature & Fiction

Calder Publications Ltd

John Cage, a leading figure of the American musical avant-garde and lecturer and writer extraordinary, dedicated himself to the search for new horizons in musical composition. Silence is a collection of some of the essays and lectures that have made John Cage's name synonymous with all that is unpredictable and exciting in contemporary miusic. Outrageous they may be, but to anyone who is receptive to new ideas, to fresh and original ways of looking at and listening to things, they are a mine of fascinating discovery. And, as Cage fans will expect, the book also contains a wealth of handy information on collecting mushrooms, fishing through ice, and so on, as well as many anecdotes and Zen-type stories which illustrate Cage's exuberant artistic pre-occupations.

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