John Cage

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JOHN CAGE & THOMAS WULFFEN: RROSE TO THE OCCASION
MODERNE KUNST NüRNBERG
ISBN: 9783869843858 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2013
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COMPOSITION IN RETROSPECT
By John Cage.
EXACT CHANGE
ISBN: 9781878972118 | US $15.95
Pub Date: 10/1/2008
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JOHN CAGE: EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY: THE VISUAL ART OF JOHN CAGE
HAYWARD PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781853322839 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2010
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JOHN CAGE SHOCK 2LP
EM RECORDS (JAPAN)
ISBN: EM 1107LP | US $32.53
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John Cage

John Cage & Thomas Wulffen: Rrose to the Occasion

A Conversation

Published by Moderne Kunst Nürnberg

In 1984, John Cage (born 1912) gave a concert at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and art critic and curator Thomas Wulffen (born 1931) seized the opportunity to talk with Cage about his work. This previously unpublished interview shows the composer in a relaxed and generous mood.

Composition in Retrospect

By John Cage.
Published by Exact Change

Written in his characteristic “mesostics” (lines of prose poetry linked by a central vertical acrostic), Composition in Retrospect is a statement of methodology in which composer John Cage examines the central issues of his work: indeterminacy, imitation, variable structure and contingency. Finished only shortly before his death in 1992, Composition in Retrospect completes the documentation of Cage’s thought that began with his classic book Silence (1961), but it is an introduction and invitation to his work as much as a summary or conclusion. Also included in this volume (at Cage’s request) is “Themes and Variations,” a piece written in 1982 about friends and heroes such as Jasper Johns, Buckminster Fuller, Marcel Duchamp and Erik Satie. Together these pieces form a book that is both a testament to the artists Cage admired and a clear statement of his own ars poetica.

John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day: The Visual Art of John Cage

Introduction by Roger Malbert. Text by Jeremy Millar, Lauren A. Wright, Helen Luckett. Interviews by Kathan Brown, Ray Kass, Laura Kuhn, Julie Lazar, Irving Sandler.
Published by Hayward Publishing

One of the twentieth century's most influential and iconoclastic protagonists, John Cage (1912-1992) may be described not so much as a composer, artist and author, as a thinker who applied his ideas equivalently to sound, visual art and writing. As with his music, the use of chance operations--in particular via the Chinese Book of Changes, or I Ching--was central to Cage's approach to visual art, determining technique, the placement of forms and even tonal values. Every Day is a Good Day provides the first broad assessment of Cage's art, and is fully illustrated with plates of his drawings, watercolors and prints, including series such as Where R=Ryoanji (1983-92). Cage's working methods and philosophies are brought to light in new interviews with key collaborators: printmaker and writer Kathan Brown, founder of Crown Point Press; Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust; artist Ray Kass; and Julie Lazar, curator of Cage's composition for a museum, Rolywholyover: A Circus. Extracts from a 1966 interview between John Cage and critic Irving Sandler are also reproduced. At the heart of the book is a "Companion to John Cage," a selection of quotes by Cage and notes on key themes and influences, all of which make it essential reading on this important figure of the twentieth-century avant garde.

John Cage Shock 2LP

Published by EM RECORDS (Japan)

These tracks are compiled from the 3 CD volumes of John Cage Shock, except track B2 which is exclusive to this vinyl release.

All works composed in 1961 except side C composed in 1962.

A, B1, and D recorded at Mido-Kaikan in Osaka on October 17, 1962.

B2 and C recorded at Sogestu Art Center in Aoyama, Tokyo on October 24, 1962.

Packaged in single pocket jacket with 8-page booklet including notes in Japanese and English.