• artists' book
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 22.5 x 28.5 cm.
  • 231 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0060152435

United States

Laurie Anderson

description

"United States" is a book of lyrics and photographs documenting Laurie Anderson's epic musical work, "United States I - IV," which she performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1984. In an interview by John Diliberto and Kimberly Haas in 1985, Anderson said that much of the performance is "highly critical of technology ... Yet at the same time I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that. So what am I saying? A couple of things at least. I love it and I hate it, etc." Diliberto and Haas continue to write that "Laurie Anderson may be the ultimate techno-musician. Not because she uses state-of-the-art synthesizers like the Synclavier II, nor because her musical observations are so keenly attuned to the high-tech of the 1980s. It's because she doesn't care about the hardware, which to her is only another tool, a device through which she can process her ideas. Anderson's work isn't defined by her instruments, instead the instruments are defined by her music." -- interview of Laurie Anderson by John Diliberto and Kimberly Haas, originally printed in the September 1985 issue of Electronic Musician

New York, NY: Harper & Row,
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