{"product_id":"9781501306402","title":"Experimentations : John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eExperimentations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Branden Wayne Joseph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExperimentations \u003c\/i\u003eprovides 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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eExperimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" - \u003ci\u003eIna Blom, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" - \u003ci\u003eAlexander Rehding, Professor of Music, Harvard University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“...\u003ci\u003eExperimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e 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.” \u003ci\u003e- Critical Inquiry \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501306402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40597534539982,"sku":"9781501306402","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_fd77abd2-830c-401e-866e-d482d14b9da9.jpg?v=1637882579","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501306402","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}