Re: Re: Re: expanding my library

On the used market, *Another Song* is available for $5000!!!!!  *Mushroom
Book* isn't available at all!
Rob

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Bruce, Neely <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can't buy these books easily, but if you have a library near you I
> recommend checking out the various livres d'artistes by Cage. I especially
> like "The Mushroom Book" (Wesleyan has a copy) and "Another Song" (with
> exquisite photographs by Susan Barron, most copies are in private hands).
> They will give you a completely different idea of Cage and the visual arts.
> There is a page of "Another Song" reproduced here:
>
> http://www.eprarebooks.com/cgi-bin/phillips/98
>
> You can get an idea of these books by googling them, but there is no
> substitute for seeing them in the flesh.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Rob Haskins [[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 7:17 AM
> To: Ralph Lichtensteiger
> Cc: Jared Steward; [email protected]
> Subject: [silence] Re: Re: expanding my library
>
> Themes & Variations is included in the Exact Change edition of Composition
> in Retrospect; so that work, fortunately, is still available.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 25, 2011, at 5:19 AM, Ralph Lichtensteiger <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> dear Jared,
>
> Here's my Cage-literature list, in anarchic order...
> hope this will inspire you.
>
> By Cage:
> M: Writings ’67–’72, 1973 by Wesleyan University Press — my favorite
> X: writings '79-'82, 1983 by Wesleyan University Press
> Empty Words: Writings '73-'78, 1979 by Wesleyan University Press
> Silence: Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan; 1st edition (June 15, 1961) —
> essential
> A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan; 1st edition (May
> 15, 1967)
> Themes and Variations, Station Hill Press (June 1982) — out of print, but
> this is a very interesting text
> I-VI: MethodStructureInten... (Cage's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures),
> Wesleyan (October 15, 1997)
> Composition In Retrospect, Exact Change (October 1, 2008)
> FOR THE BIRDS, In Conversation with Daniel Charles. 239 pp. Boston: Marion
> Boyars — a brilliant discussion book
> John Cage Book of Days 2011, The John Cage Trust; Egmt Min edition (July
> 31, 2010)
> Anarchy: New York City-January 1998, Wesleyan; 1st Wesleyan ed edition
> (July 15, 2001)
> Notations, Something Else Press; First Edition edition (1969) — out of
> print, a great book
>
> On Cage:
> The Cambridge companion to John Cage By David Nicholls — one of the best
> resources about Cage
> Joan Retallack, Musicage: Cage muses on Words-Art-Music, New England 1996 —
> discussions about art, aesthetics and concepts
> Marjorie Perloff & Charles Junkerman, John Cage: Composed in America,
> Chicago 1994
> James Pritchett, The Music of John Cage. Cambridge: Cambridge University
> Press, 1993
> The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life by David Revill
> The Boulez-Cage Correspondence [Paperback], Jean-Jacques Nattiez (Editor),
> Robert Samuels (Editor), Cambridge University Press (January 27, 1995) —
> important correspondence document
>
> Books and writers that influenced Cage:
> Norman O. Brown, Love's Body. New York: Random House, 1966
> Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. (1927) Essays in Zen Buddhism. Series no. 1.
> London: Luzac. — essential
> ———. (1933) Essays in Zen Buddhism. Series no. 2. London: Luzac.
> ———. (1934) Essays in Zen Buddhism. Series no. 3. London: Luzac.
> Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, The Transformation of Nature in Art, (Sterling
> Pub Private Ltd, 1996)
> Journal by Henry David Thoreau — essential
> The Portable Thoreau (Portable Library, Penguin Books, 698 pages) —
> essential
> Ulysses by James Joyce — essential
> Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
>
> and the writings of
>
> Gertrude Stein
> Buckminster Fuller
> Marshall McLuhan
> Aristotle
> Marcel Duchamp
> Ezra Pound
>
> Best,
> Ralph Li
> <http://lichtensteiger.net/>http://lichtensteiger.net
>
>
> On Jun 24, 2011, at 3:30 AM, Jared Steward wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I thought I'd start with an introduction, since I've been a "lurker" on
> this for the past year or so. First of all, I'm a little envious of those of
> you who knew Cage personally, since I actually didn't learn about him until
> college in the early to mid 90s when it was too late to meet him!  I'm a
> percussionist and hope to learn as much as I can about John Cage and his
> circle of friends and associates. As part of that goal, I've started a web
> "museum" called Cageum, where I'm putting YouTube clips, audio and other
> things I've found regarding the subject. If you're interested, the link is
> below.
>
> The reason I really wanted to write, is because I'd like to expand my
> library regarding Cage and was wondering what suggestions any of you might
> have as your top choice of books or recordings or videos. I already have
> "Silence", Carolyn Brown's "Chance and Circumstance", Elliot Caplan's
> "Cage/Cunningham" DVD and a few CDs. I've been thinking about getting Gann's
> book about 4'33'', but what would you list as your top 5 or top 10
> books/CDs, etc by or about Cage?
>
> Looking forward to your responses!
>
> Jared
>
> website: <http://jared.stewardsweb.net/> jared.stewardsweb.net<
> http://jared.stewardsweb.net>
> twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/jaredsteward> twitter.com/jaredsteward<
> http://twitter.com/jaredsteward>
> blog: Cageum<http://cageum.stewardsweb.net/>
>
>
>
>


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