Branden Wayne Joseph

Experimentations (eBook, ePUB)

John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501306426
• Artikelnr.: 48421738

Autorenporträt

Branden W. Joseph is the Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University in New York. He is author of Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage, The Roh and the Cooked: Tony Conrad and Beverly Grant in Europe; and Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde. He is also the author of numerous scholarly essays in the fields of contemporary art, music, and cinema.