Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture

by Branden Wayne Joseph

Overview

The first detailed exploration of avant-garde composer John Cage’s interactions with art and architecture as a means of understanding the aesthetic and political stakes of his career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501306402
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/11/2016
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Branden W. Joseph is Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University. He is the author of four books, including Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage (2008) and Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (2003), which appeared in French translation in 2012.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
II. A Therapeutic Value for City Dwellers
III. Hitchhiker in an Omnidirectional Transport
IV. The Architecture of Silence
V. Chance/Indeterminacy/Multiplicity
VI. Ghost or Monster?
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture is a brilliant and vital critical contribution to the growing body of art historical scholarship on John Cage's multidisciplinary legacy. The readymade Cage of chance and silence is replaced by a rich and nuanced narrative of a compositional practice nourished by its evolving and often conflicted exchanges with the artistic, architectural and political avant-gardes." - Ina Blom, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway

"With great musical and historical sensitivity Joseph unpacks John Cage's struggles, on the one hand, with Beethoven, Schoenberg, Stockhausen--the whole weighty European musical tradition, and on the other, with changing notions of experimentation and the avant-garde. What emerges is an artist who places music in the service of remaking the entire institution of art. Joseph succeeds in writing a brilliant book that is equally captivating for musicians and art historians." - Alexander Rehding, Professor of Music, Harvard University, USA

"...Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture provides its reader with an overview of Branden W. Joseph's two-decade engagement with John Cage and represents some of the most intellectually rigorous writing about the composer ... nuanced and important." - Critical Inquiry

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