Merce Cunningham

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MERCE CUNNINGHAM: A PICTURES BOOK FOR JOHN CAGE XMAS 1984
THE JOHN CAGE TRUST
ISBN: 9781935202790 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 5/31/2012
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MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV: MERCE MY WAY
THE BARYSHNIKOV FOUNDATION
ISBN: 9780982172605 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2009
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MERCE CUNNINGHAM: FIFTY YEARS
Essay by David Vaughan.
APERTURE
ISBN: 9780893816247 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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MERCE CUNNINGHAM: OTHER ANIMALS
Essays by David Vaughan and Merce Cunningham.
APERTURE
ISBN: 9780893819460 | US $22.98
Pub Date: 6/15/2005
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MERCE CUNNINGHAM
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881582167 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 7/2/1999
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CUNNINGHAM/MONK/JONES
Artwork by Merce Cunningham. Contributions by Thelma Golden, Meredith Jones, Laura Kuhn.
WALKER ART CENTER
ISBN: 9780935640564 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 7/2/1998
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Merce Cunningham

Merce Cunningham: A Pictures Book for John Cage Xmas 1984

Published by The John Cage Trust

A Pictures Book for John Cage Xmas 1984 is a facsimile edition of a spiralbound notebook filled with choreographic notation by Merce Cunningham (1919–2009), a leader of the American avant-garde throughout his 70-year career and one of the most important choreographers and dancers of all time. This previously unpublished document is one of the most extensive elaborations of Cunningham’s choreographic notation in print, offering a rare glimpse into his methods, and in particular the stage work Pictures (1984). Originally presented as a holiday gift from Cunningham to his lifetime partner, John Cage, this lovingly reproduced edition now in turn serves as a gift from the John Cage Trust to the Cunningham Dance Foundation, on the occasion of the dance company’s final performance, New Year’s Eve 2011. With exquisite color notations that blend drawing and dance, it will also make a perfect gift for any fan of modern art or music.

Mikhail Baryshnikov: Merce My Way

Published by The Baryshnikov Foundation

Mikhail Baryshnikov, a photographer most of his adult life, has turned his lens on dance, and here pays vibrant homage to the work of master choreographer Merce Cunningham. In his introduction to Merce My Way Baryshnikov writes, "Watching Cunningham's dances through the eye of a lens is a lesson in the extremes and restraints of a dancer's body... to a dancer, such nakedness is revelatory." This volume offers 85 of Baryshnikov's striking, never-before-published color images, in which he seizes the essence of Cunningham's choreography by anticipating the dancers' motions and capturing the streaming fluidity of the dance. His images are radiant and electric--blurring motion, past, present and future into a single frame. Featuring images of six recent Cunningham dances, the book is a revelation for all those who revere dance--and the work of these two masters.

Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years

Essay by David Vaughan.
Published by Aperture

The book on Mr. Cunningham aims at, and is, as complete and clear a portrait of the modern dance choreographer and his epochal work as has ever been published... The surprise of the Cunningham book is the grace with which it almost definitively sums up Mr. Cunningham's 63-year life in dance ... Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years is a compelling portrait of a simple yet complex man and an artist who has seldom faltered in his explorations of life and art on the simplest and most complex levels. --Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
“What emerges from this dispassionate, scrupulous account is much more than the chronicle of fifty years in the amazing and creative life of Merce Cunningham... Kudos to David Vaughan who has given us a noble work. As archivist for the Cunningham company for twenty years, he knows better than anyone how to turn this book about a great artist and about the art of this century into a work of art in itself.”
--Mikhail Baryshnikov
Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years celebrates the career of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century from his first innovative and explosive solo dances to the present. This unique book incorporates images of performances by many world renowned photographers, including Imogen Cunningham, Barbara Morgan, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Hujar and Arnold Eagle.

Merce Cunningham: Other Animals

Essays by David Vaughan and Merce Cunningham.
Published by Aperture

Known worldwide for his remarkable, groundbreaking choreography, Merce Cunningham has a secret: he also draws. For the first time he opens a door into his fantastical animal kingdom with Aperture's publication of Other Animals. Cunningham, an obsessive observer with a colossal sense of humor, revels in nature with the same childlike vision and expressiveness that infuses his dances. Like his dances, his drawings are impressions, inventions, gestures and interactions. Cunningham introduces us to a bird riding a turtle, a bizarre hybrid creature wearing a fashionable sweater and an ostrich that rivals the gracefulness of his dancers.
The drawings are collected in a beautifully produced, colorful volume, with selected entries from Cunningham's journals and photographs of some of his dances and their notations. These drawings offer a key to understanding how Cunningham renders his vision of the world through dance--and how his vision is translated into costuming through his collaboration with designers such as Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garconnes.

Merce Cunningham

Artwork by Merce Cunningham. Edited by Germano Celant. Contributions by David Vaughn. Text by Melissa Harris.
Published by Charta

Cunningham/Monk/Jones

Art Performs Life

Artwork by Merce Cunningham. Contributions by Thelma Golden, Meredith Jones, Laura Kuhn.
Published by Walker Art Center

Recogninzing the importance of performance in 20th century avant-garde art, this catalogue traces the careers of three artists who have each made a significant contribution to that history. Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk and Bill T. Jones.