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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Accompanying a unique exhibition at the respected Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, this book is a remarkable combination of the work of poets and artists, that explores in new ways the relationship between the visual and the verbal. In his preface, Charles Bernstein writes:"Not words and pictures but poems as visual objects. Not poems about pictures but pictures that are poems. Not works closed in a book but hanging on a wall or suspended from the ceiling or rising from the floor or sounding from inside a figure or embedded with paint on a canvas or written in the sky or flickering on a screen." Co-curator Jay Sanders explains in his introduction:"We had a gallery and we wanted to flood it with poetry. Not with "poetic" artwork, but with actual poetry, made by poets. But, we have gallery walls, not pages in a book. So we organized a show of art overrun with poetry and a show of poetry riddled with art."

Artists include among others: Carl Andre, Arakawa, Susan Bee, Tom Phillips, Mira Schor, Kiki Smith, Philip Guston, Wallace Berman, Robert Smithson, Richard Tuttle, Michael Snow. Poets include among others: David Antin, Robert Creeley, Clark Coolidge, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, John Cage, Madeline Gins, Lyn Hejinian, Kenneth Goldsmith, Robert Grenier, Tan Lin, Jackson MacLow, Steve McCaffery, Emily McVarnish, Nick Piombino.

Edited by Charles Bernstein and Jay Sanders.
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A cookbook for the truly imaginative cook and a good-natured satire of art, books, and creation in general, these wonderfully instructive and visually delightful recipes are invaluable for keeping a sense of humor about all things serious. 21 full-color illustrations. ... Read more

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Mud Pies are to make and to look at, not to eat.
Contrary to what the editorial review says, this is not a "good-natured satire". This book is both a serious and fun guide for making mud cakes and pies. Everybody can do it! The fact that the result might not be edible does not detract from the value of this little book. The illustrations are great, and the language is suited both for children and adults. If you have ever read Walter DeMaria's words on meaningless work, you will surely appreciate this book.

Notes from the Underground
So we can't all make music like the Velvet Underground but mud pies are an art form achievable by virtually every humanoid life form.Of course there's a certain ammount of finesse that comes only with time andpractice, but Cage's meticulous instructions exist as a solid framework forbeginners in this sublime craft.The illustrations are just the sort ofinspiration an amateur mud pie or cake maker needs to get those creativejuices flowing. ... Read more

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For the generation born after World War II, Marshall McLuhan instilled an urgent awareness of the media environment as a basic force shaping the modern sensibility. "If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves."--Marshall McLuhan. ... Read more

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Chapters: John Cage. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 August 12, 1992) was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives. Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 433, the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played. The content of the composition is meant to be perceived as the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, rather than merely as four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence, and the piece became one of the most controversial compositions of the twentieth century. Another famous creation of Cage's is the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by placing various objects in the strings), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces, the best known of which is Sonatas and Interludes (194648). His teachers included Henry Cowell (1933) and Arnold Schoenberg (193335), both known for their radical innovations in music, but Cage's major influences lay in various Eastern cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s, Cage came to the idea of chance-controlled music, which he started composing in 1951. The I Ching, an ancient Chinese classic text on...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=65954 ... Read more

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Few twentieth-century artists have been as quotable as the ever-pithy composer, writer, philosopher and artist John Cage, and his aphorisms have become the mantras of fans the world over. "I have nothing to say/and I am saying it/and that is poetry as I know it" is just one of his most famous observations, regularly cited by artists and thinkers across all disciplines. Celebrating Cage's gift for playful, concise wisdom, and produced by the John Cage Trust under the guidance of Laura Kuhn, the John Cage Book of Days is a 2011 pocket calendar that brings together the composer's words with noteworthy historical events in Cage's life as well as tiny visual fragments drawn from his artworks. Bound in a soft cover graced with one of his essential Ryoanji drawings, this Book of Days gathers all aspects of Cage's work into a volume that makes even the mundane task of managing a life pleasurable and fresh. ... Read more

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Few twentieth-century artists have been as quotable as the ever-pithy composer, writer, philosopher and artist John Cage, and his aphorisms have become the mantras of fans the world over. "I have nothing to say/and I am saying it/and that is poetry as I know it" is just one of his most famous observations, regularly cited by artists and thinkers across all disciplines. Celebrating Cage's gift for playful, concise wisdom, and produced by the John Cage Trust under the guidance of its director, Laura Kuhn, the John Cage Book of Days is a 2010 pocket calendar that brings together the composer's words with noteworthy historical events in Cage's life, as well as tiny fragments drawn from his visual artworks. Bound in a soft cover that features one of his famous Ryoanji drawings, this Book of Days gathers all aspects of Cage's work into a volume that makes even the mundane task of managing a life pleasurable and fresh. ... Read more

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From the cover: "Silence by which John Cage means unintended, indeterminate noise...in written pages as "white paintings" of the mind--anectdotes of Schonberg and Suzuki- celebrations of Sate, Carese, Rauschenberg, private friends, mushrooms-and words and spaces on Meister Eckhardt-Zen-Dada-the RandomChaos-composition by hexagram, coin-tossing, paper fly specks-composition for prepared piano, magnetic tape, Happenings-Silence heard as the 13th tone-music as space-time transformation (bounded notes becoming unpredictable timesequences)-the indeterminancy of modern science-the one-in-allinorder-in-chaos and the (musical) rest in (Cagian) silence. Perhaps more than any other living composer, Cage holds up an auditory mirror of the sound of music around us....He has a validity that both disturbs and indicts." Saturday Review." ... Read more

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John Cage (1912--1992) is probably best known forworks that challenge the fundamental definition ofmusic---for example, his groundbreaking 4'33". In thelast six years of his life, however, Cage wrote 48compositions now known as the Number Pieces---works,usually scored for conventional Western instruments,that often contained precisely defined pitches. Eachperformer in one of these pieces performs his or hermusic in a strict order, but the actual start- andstop-times for each musical event vary because of Cage's notational system called "time brackets." While the time-bracket system ensured that the total time for a performance would always remain the same, it allowed sufficient flexibility to the performers in the spirit of Cage¿s indeterminate aesthetic---thebrackets made the music became, in his words, "earthquake proof." This book offers anoverview of the series, an exploration ofsources and compositional process, an analyticaldiscussion of selected works, a contextual inquiry into the works with respect to Cage's interests inAmerican anarchistic traditions, and a concludingdiscussion that considers aspects of reception andhistoriography. ... Read more

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A sixty-page catalog illustrating and describing each of the first seven series of etchings Cage had done at Crown Point Press, with an essay by Kathan Brown, an original text by John Cage, and a chronology of his life by Anne d'Harnoncourt. ... Read more