Every day is a good day : the visual art of John Cage / [exhibition conceived by Jeremy Millar].
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Hayward Publishing ; New York, NY : Distributed in North America by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2010.Description: 160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781853322839
- 1853322830
- Visual art of John Cage
- 769.92 CAG
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book is published to accompany the first major UK retrospective of the visual art of the pioneering American composer and artist John Cage (1912ndash;1992). The use of chance operations, in particular the Chinese Book of Changes, or I Ching, was central to Cage's compositional method and his approach to his drawings, watercolours and prints, many of which are reproduced here for the first time. Cage's practice is explored in new interviews with key collaborators: printmaker Kathan Brown; Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust; artist Ray Kass; and Julie Lazar, curator of Cage's 1992 'composition for a museum', Rolywholyover: A Circus. Extracts from a 1966 interview between Cage and the critic Irving Sandler are also included. At the heart of the book is a 'Companion to Cage': a selection of quotations by Cage and notes on key themes and influences from 'Alphabet' to 'Zen', making it essential reading on this important figure of the twentieth-century avant-garde. Published to accompany the UK touring exhibition in 2010 ndash; 2011 at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Huddersfield Art Gallery; Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea.
Published on the occasion of John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day, a Hayward Touring exhibition organised in collaboration with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and the John Cage Trust--T.p. verso.
Exhibition held at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 19 June-5 Sept. 2010; Kettle\'s Yard Cambridge, 25 Sept.-14 Nov. 2010; Huddersfield Art Gallery, 20 Nov. 2010-8 Jan. 2011; Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, 19 Feb.-2 Apr. 2011; and De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, 16 Apr.-5 June, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157).
Introduction / Roger Malbert -- Not wanting to say anything about John Cage / Jeremy Millar -- Cage at Crown Point Press : an interview with Kathan Brown -- Mountains and rivers : an interview with Ray Kass -- How to improve the world : an interview with Laura Kuhn -- Rolywholyover, a circus : an interview with Julie Lazar -- To open our eyes / Irving Sandler -- Companion to Cage / Helen Luckett and Lauren A. Wright -- Plates / Notes by Kathan Brown and Helen Luckett.