John Cage: Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1938221109 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
(Holland Cotter The New York Times)A work in which the visual dimension has become as multifaceted as the textual one, making Cage the posthumous collaborator on an artist' book (Gilbert Alan Hyperallergic) . These fragments of opinions and problems, worries and joys are meant to be meditative, and working through them recalibrates the reader’s perspective. He was also much more, an intensely engaged moral thinker. (Nicole Rudick The Paris Review Daily)The Siglio edition preserves Cage's graphic effects, but more importantly it gives a sense of the company he kept and
Kirk McElhearn said A fascinating book, lovingly designed. John Cage is best known for his music, but his writings were also very important. He wrote theoretical articles and lectures, as well as a great deal of poetry, and a variety of uncategorizable works. One little-known written work of his was his Diar. Charles J. Ayers said Four Stars. you can dip in anywhere and you're bound to find interesting observations about a multitude of things.. "Cage is a great favorite of mine and an influence on my thinking" according to Ronald. Cage is a great favorite of mine and an influence on my thinking about art and life. Reading this diary (much of which I have seen before in other of his publications) is a real treat, and I find myself quoting pieces of it on my Facebook page quite
The beautiful and unusual visual variances become almost musical as the physicality of the language on the page suggests the sonic. Typing on an IBM Selectric, Cage used chance operations to determine not only the word count and the application of various typefaces but also the number of letters per line, the patterns of indentation and--in the case of Part Three (published as a Great Bear pamphlet by Something Else Press)--color. A repository of observations, anecdotes, obsessions, jokes and koan like stories, the diary registers Cage's assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny predictions about the world we live in now. Coeditors Kraft and Biel have consulted these publications along with Cage's original manuscripts, and--with the Great Bear pamphlet as a guide--they have u