Softcover
1982 · Oakland, California
by Brown, Kathan and Anne d'Harnoncourt
Oakland, California: Point Publications/Crown Point Press, 1982. Softcover. VG- (Fine internally but with a hint of general shelf wear to covers). White/beige card wraps with gold border and white lettering. Bw photo on back cover. 60 pp. with 28 illustrations; 7 in color. Monograph of works by composer-artist John Cage. The catalogue is divided into 4 sections: Changing Art, A Chronicle Centered on John Cage (Kathan Brown) which weaves the thread of Cage's thought, its influence and the influences upon it, into a fabric of definitions of the major art movements from 1900 to 1982; Etchings - representations from each of Cage's 7 series of 154 total etchings, each with its method of composition described; Composition in Retrospect (by Cage), a poetic text describing his approach to his work by writing mesostics on ten words (Method, Structure, Intention, Discipline, Notation, Indeterminacy, Interpenetration, Imitation, Devotion and Circimstances); and Chronology (d'Harnoncourt) on Cage's career as a composer/musician, writer and artist.
(Inventory #: 155305)