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Experimentations : John Cage in music, art, and architecture
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ISBN: 9781501306396 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury,

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Experimentations provides a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of the first three decades of experimental composer John Cage's aesthetic production (ca. 1940-1972). Paying particular attention to Cage's inter- and cross-disciplinary engagements with the visual arts and architecture during this period, the book sheds new light on some of Cage's most controversial and influential innovations, such as the use of noise, chance techniques, indeterminacy, electronic technologies, and computerization, as well as upon lesser known but important ideas and strategies such as transparency, multiplicity, virtuality, and actualization. Ultimately, it traces the development of Cage's avant-garde aesthetic and political project as it transformed from the emulation of historical avant-garde precedents such as futurism and the Bauhaus, to the development of important precedents for the post-World War II movements of happenings and Fluxus, to its ultimate abandonment in the aftermath of problems encountered in the vast, multimedia composition HPSCHD (1967-69).

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ISBN: 0262600714 9780262600712 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,

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This volume examines the work of American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008). Rauschenberg came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. He is well-known for using non-traditional materials and objects that were employed in innovative combinations. The author looks at Rauschenberg's career from the years 1951 to 1971, as seen through the context of such works as the White Paintings, Rebus, and Canyon-"Combine" paintings created from varied materials -- as well as through his close professional association with composer John Cage. He presents Rauschenberg's life and creative output with special emphasis on the influences derived from the urban environment, the artist's creative methods and studio surroundings, collaborations with choreographer Trisha Brown, and the massive and long-term Overseas Culture Interchange project.

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ISBN: 0262100991 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge MIT press

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Beyond the dream syndicate : Tony Conrad and the arts after Cage (a "minor" history)
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ISBN: 9781890951870 1890951870 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York: Zone books,

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Examining Tony Conrad's collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections in 1960s art. Tony Conrad has significantly influenced cultural developments from minimalism to underground film, “concept art,” postmodern appropriation, and the most sophisticated rock and roll. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Normal Love, follower of Henry Flynt's radical anti-art, member of the Theatre of Eternal Music and the first incarnation of The Velvet Underground, and early associate of Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman, Conrad has eluded canonic histories. Yet Beyond the Dream Syndicate does not claim Conrad as a major but under-recognized figure. Neither monograph nor social history, the book takes Conrad's collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections in 1960s art. Such an approach simultaneously illuminates and estranges current understandings of the period, redrawing the map across medium and stylistic boundaries to reveal a constitutive hybridization at the base of the decade's artistic development. This exploration of Conrad and his milieu goes beyond the presentation of a relatively overlooked oeuvre to chart multiple, contestatory regimes of power simultaneously in play during the pivotal moment of the 1960s. From the sovereign authority invoked by Young's music, to the “paranoiac” politics of Flynt, to the immanent control modeled by Conrad's films, each avant-garde project examined reveals an investment within a particular structure of power and resistance, providing a glimpse into the diversity of the artistic and political stakes that continue to define our time.


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Experimentations : John Cage in music, art, and architecture
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ISBN: 1501306413 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

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Experimentations provides a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of the first three decades of experimental composer John Cage's aesthetic production (ca. 1940-1972). Paying particular attention to Cage's inter- and cross-disciplinary engagements with the visual arts and architecture during this period, the book sheds new light on some of Cage's most controversial and influential innovations, such as the use of noise, chance techniques, indeterminacy, electronic technologies, and computerization, as well as upon lesser known but important ideas and strategies such as transparency, multiplicity, virtuality, and actualization. Ultimately, it traces the development of Cage's avant-garde aesthetic and political project as it transformed from the emulation of historical avant-garde precedents such as futurism and the Bauhaus, to the development of important precedents for the post-World War II movements of happenings and Fluxus, to its ultimate abandonment in the aftermath of problems encountered in the vast, multimedia composition HPSCHD (1967-69) [Publisher description]


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Carolee Schneemann : uncollected texts
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ISBN: 9780991558551 0991558553 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York Primary Information

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"Edited by art historian Branden W. Joseph, the texts span diverse formats: included are journal entries, criticism, poems, essays and performance notes culled primarily from short-run magazines such as Caterpillar, Film Culture, The Fox, Manipulations and Matter, as well as academic journals such as Performing Arts Journal and Art Journal and mainstream media outlets including the New York Times and the Village Voice. The book serves as a companion to Schneemann's two earliest books - 'Parts of a Body House Book' and 'Cézanne, She Was a Great Painter' - offering new perspectives on the artist's life, work and ideas through many writings that have never been reproduced in their original form. It features Schneemann's reflections on her own works, including 'Meat Joy,' 'Divisions and Rubble,' and 'Kitch's Last Meal.'--Artbook& website (viewed on February 12, 2018). "'Uncollected Texts' draws together a number of Carolee Schneemann's earliest writings - many exceedingly rare and several publishered here for the first time - ranging from letters to the editor to dream journals, film criticism, satirical poems, detailed discussions of her art, and pointed feminist critiques. Dating from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, the writings gathered in this volume shed light on some of Schneemann's most important artistic achievements, including her most famous 'kinetic theater' piece, 'Meat Joy'; anti-Vietnam War works such as 'Snows'; the multimedia performance 'Up to and Including Her Limits'; and the double-screen film 'Kitch's Last Meal'. Frequently referencing one another, the assembled writings create a densely interwoven tapestry of cross-references that provide unique insights into Schneemann's artistic development while also foregrounding the artist's uniquely poetic style."


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ISBN: 9782930667027 2930667028 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bruxelles: Continental Rift,


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Robert Rauschenberg : combines
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ISBN: 2844263097 9782844263094 Year: 2006 Publisher: Steidl: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: Paris: Centre Pompidou,

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Au début des années cinquante Rauschenberg commençait sa carrière artistique par des peintures monochromes blanches, noires, or et rouges, avec papier journal marouflé et peint produisant des effets de différentes textures. Il voulait déjà abolir en art le principe sacro-saint de l'expression de soi. Ces surfaces, et en particulier les Withe painting, se veulent des miroirs, des surfaces neutres prêtes à accueillir le reflet du monde. « Aujourd'hui est leur créateur », dit l'artiste à leur sujet. La période des Combines vient immédiatement après. « Rauschenberg : Combines » est la première exposition consacrée exclusivement à cette phase essentielle de la création de l'artiste qui marque le début de son influence artistique internationale. Comme le nom l'indique, les Combines sont des œuvres hybrides, qui associent à la pratique de la peinture celle du collage et de l'assemblage d'éléments les plus divers prélevés au réel quotidien. Ni peinture ni sculpture mais les deux à la fois, les monumentales Combines de Rauschenberg envahissent l'espace du spectateur et l'interpellent comme des véritables rébus visuels. Des oiseaux empaillés aux bouteilles de Coca-Cola, des journaux aux images de presse, aux tissus, aux papiers peints, aux portes et aux fenêtres, l'univers entier semble entrer dans sa combinatoire pour s'associer à la peinture. Ami de John Cage, le son l'intéresse aussi et, dans ses dernières Combines, il développera des analogies entre musique et arts plastiques. Proche aussi de Merce Cunningam et de la danse, certaines de ses œuvres seront des décors de scène. « Ce n'est ni de l'Art pour l'Art, ni de l'Art contre l'art. Je suis pour l'Art, mais pour l'Art qui n'a rien à voir avec l'Art. L'Art a tout à voir avec la vie, mais il n'a rien à voir avec l'Art », affirme Rauschenberg. (Entretien avec André Parinaud, in Catalogue de l'exposition Paris New York Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1977.) S'inscrivant dans le sillage de l'invention du collage par Braque et Picasso, ainsi que dans celui de l'assemblage dadaïste, Rauschenberg réinvente ces pratiques pour leur donner, dans les Combines, un impact autre. Héritier de l'esprit dada, Rauschenberg est marqué par les assemblages de Kurt Schwitters, à l'instar duquel il suggère que l'art et la vie ne font qu'un. Néanmoins, comme le souligne Barbara Rose, l'art de Rauschenberg puise sa source dans l'Amérique de l'époque, et c'est à l'Expressionnisme abstrait et à ses visées d'absolu que l'artiste réagit en intégrant l'image tirée de magazines dans ses œuvres ainsi que des matériaux non artistiques. Comme tous les grands artistes, ses influences peuvent être cherchées très loin, et parmi les peintres qui l'ont profondément marqué, l'artiste cite Léonard de Vinci et son Annonciation (1475-1478) du musée des Offices à Florence. « Sa peinture étant la vie, l'arbre, le rocher, la Vierge ont tous la même importance en même temps. Il n'y a pas de hiérarchie c'est ce qui m'intéresse. » (Entretien avec André Parinaud, op.cit.). Il en va de même dans les Combines, où chaque élément conserve son intégrité sans occulter les autres. Présent, passé, images de presse ou reproductions de chefs-d'œuvre de l'art occidental, dessin et peinture, coussins et boîtes s'intègrent dans ses œuvres, qui veulent introduire « la totalité dans le moment ». (extrait du site "http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education")

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