Published in the early 1900s "The Essay on Silence" by Fra Elbertus [Elbert Hubbard], was produced by The Roycrofters at their Shop in East Aurora, NY. It features leather covers with embossed title and completely blank pages in the interior, predating by decades John Cage's famous performance of "4'33. ... [details]
"In this book nine highly articulate members of the most interesting avant-garde movement in art discuss their purposes and processes : John Cage, Ann Halprin, Robert Rauschenberg, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Ken Dewey, La Monte Young, Robert Whitman, and USCO (the name of an artists' collective). ... [details]
Artist's book by John Cage. Photographs by Robert Mahon. "In Themes & Variations John Cage opens a new chamber in the work he has created 'out of a need for poetry' : a poem, a score for oral performance, a typographic experiment, a musical composition in which the words are notes and the ideas phrases, a series of mesostics determined by chance operations and combined with the traditional Japanese form of Renga. ... [details]
The first album from MoMA/MoMA PS1 Records featuring four artists' response to John Cage's statement "there will never be silence," curated and with a text by David Platzker and Jenny Schlenzka. Featuring compositions by Sabisha Friedberg, Yasunao Tone, Kevin Beasley and Lizzi Bougatsos. ... [details]
"A transcription of a series of six symposia in music and visual art, event art, art and architecture, environmental art, publica works and conceptual art. The panelists included Edited and with a foreword by Marilyn Bedford and Jerry Herman. ... [details]
Transcript of "Time and Space I," a symposium on concepts in music and visual art. Moderated by Dore Ashton, panelists included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Richard Kostelanetz, and Nam June Paik. Edited by Marilyn Bedford and Jerry Herman. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 15 - March 6, 1988. Examines Marcel Duchamp and his effect on the avant garde since 1950, incorporating images of Duchamp's work, reproductions of work by other artists, and essays by theorists and artists alike. ... [details]
Issue no. 5 of the journal Vision, a series begun by Tom Marioni, which doubles as a boxed edition exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, California. ... [details]
Critical theory text by Edward Lucie Smith. Comprehensive essays written on twentieth century art, including architecture, painting, sculpture and photography, grouped into categories by decade. Artists include Alvar Aalto, Vito Acconci, Ansel Adams, Josef Albers, Lawrence Alloway, Benny Andrews, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Diane Arbus, Arman, Hans [Jean] Arp, W. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1989. Essay by Christel Schüppenhauer. Artists include Stephan Barron, Mieczyslaw Berman, Josef Beuys, Wolfgang Blobel, Monika Brandmeier, George Brecht, Joan Brossa, Vladimir Burda, John Cage, Ugo Carrega, Henry Chopin, Carl Friedrich Claus, Gunter Demnig, Klaus P. ... [details]
