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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cage, John (1912-1992)
Titre(s) : Love, icebox [Texte imprimé] : letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham / foreword, commentary, and afterword by Laura Kuhn
Publication : Red Hook : the John Cage Trust, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (157 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Note(s) : These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will be revelatory, for while
the two are widely known as a dynamic, collaborative duo, the story of how and when
they came together has never been fully revealed. In the 39 letters of this collection,
spanning 1942-46, Cage shows himself to be a man falling deeply in love. When they
first met at the Cornish School in Seattle in the 1930s, Cage was 26 to Cunningham's
19. Their relationship was purely that of teacher and student, and Cage was also very
much married. It was in Chicago that their romantic relationship would begin. Cage
was teaching at Moholy-Nagy's School of Design when Cunningham passed through town
as a dancer with the Martha Graham Company, appearing on stage on March 14, 1942.
Cage's letters, which begin in earnest a week later, are increasingly passionate,
distraught, romantic and confused, and occasionally contain snippets of poetry and
song. They are also more than love letters, as we see intimations that resonate with
our experience of the later John Cage. 'Love, Icebox' takes its shape from these letters--transcribed,
chronologically ordered, and in some instances reproduced in facsimile. Laura Kuhn,
Cage's assistant from 1986 to 1992 and now longtime director of the John Cage Trust,
adds a foreword, afterword and running commentary. Photographic illustrations of their
final 18th Street loft in New York City, as well as personal and household objects
left behind, remind us of the substance and rituals of their long-shared life
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kuhn, Laura Diane. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Cage, John (1912-1992)
Cunningham, Merce (1919-2009)
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781942884385. - ISBN 1942884389 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465212680
Notice n° :
FRBNF46521268
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword: Something of the beginning ; Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
; Afterword: Some 40 years later.
