• artists' book
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 24 x 21 cm.
  • 276 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Silence : Lectures and Writings by John Cage

[First Printing]

John Cage

description

A collection of letters and writings by avant-garde composer John Cage. "These papers and addresses mirror his major concerns. Here are statements of his views on experimental music: Composition by chance operations, indeterminacy of performance, the use of electronic sound, the value of ambient noise. Here are the formalized lectures- as off-beat in structure as they often are in idea- that have caused him to be regarded as a prophet by some and as a poseur by others." -- from dust-jacket end flaps.

references

"Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. London, United Kingdom : Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd., 1972, pp. 57.

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