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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cage, John (1912-1992)
Rubrique de classement : [Correspondance (anglais). 1930-1992]
Titre(s) : The selected letters of John Cage [Texte imprimé] / edited by Laura Kuhn
Publication : Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016]
Description matérielle : xix, 651 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Comprend : 1930-1949 ; 1950-1961 ; 1962-1971 ; 1972-1982 ; 1983-1992 ; Appendix. Cage's
correspondents, with sources of his letters.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 601-651)
This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all
the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking
composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early trips
to Europe in the 1930s through his years with the dancer Merce Cunningham, and shed
new light on his growing eminence as an iconic performance artist of the American
avant-garde. Cage's joie de vivre resounds in these letters--fully annotated throughout--in
every phase of his career, and includes correspondence with Peter Yates, David Tudor,
and Pierre Boulez, among others. Above all, they reveal his passionate interest in
people, ideas, and the arts. The voice is one we recognize from his writings: singular,
profound, irreverent, and funny. Not only will readers take pleasure in Cage's correspondence
with and commentary about the people and events of a momentous and transformative
time in the arts, they will also share in his meditations on the very nature of art.
A deep pleasure to read, this volume presents an extraordinary portrait of a complex,
brilliant man who challenged and changed the artistic currents of the twentieth century
[Publisher description]
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kuhn, Laura Diane. Éditeur scientifique
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780819575913. - ISBN 0819575917. - ISBN 9780819575920 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45260833x
Notice n° :
FRBNF45260833
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