Anarchy: New York City-January 1988 by Cage, John

Anarchy: New York City-January 1998 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780819564665)

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Anarchy: New York City-January 1988 by Cage, John

Anarchy: New York City-January 1998

$25.95
Anarchy: New York City-January 1988 by Cage, John

Anarchy: New York City-January 1998

$25.95
Format: Hardcover
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"That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." This quote from Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience is one of thirty quotations from which John Cage created Anarchy, a book-length lecture comprising twenty mesostic poems. Composed with the aid of a computer program to simulate the coin toss of the I Ching, Anarchy draws on the writings of many serious anarchists including Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, and Mario Malatesta, not so much making arguments for anarchism as "brushing information against information," giving the very words new combinations that de-familiarize and re-energize them. Now widely available of the first time, Anarchy marks the culmination of Cage's work as a poet, composer and as a thinker about contemporary society.

Author: John Cage
ISBN-10: 0819564664
ISBN-13: 9780819564665
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 91
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.65h x 6.41w x 0.62d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/04/2001 pg. 77
By John Cage
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John Cage (1912 - 1992) was one of the seminal figures of the avant-garde in the U.S. A composer for whom the whole world -- with its brimming silences and anarchic harmonies -- was a source of music, Cage studied music with Adolph Weiss, Arnold Schoenberg, and others, later collaborating with such artists as Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Cage was the author of many books, including Silence, X, A Year from Monday, M, and Empty Words. The latter are all in print with Wesleyan, along with Joan Retallack's interviews with Cage, MUSICAGE: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music and a paperback edition of Cage's Norton lectures at Harvard, I-VI.

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