Re: Re: expanding my library

On 06/25/2011 11:19 AM, Ralph Lichtensteiger 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/>
>
>
>




After reading all the books suggested on this topic I'm surprised nobody 
has mentioned the I-Ching yet. It's neither by Cage nor on Cage but it 
has certainly influenced and been a companion of him for a very long 
time. I didn't think of it too until I saw Ralph's extensive list by the 
way:-)


Speaking of Suzuki's volumes, Ralph could you please indicate a more 
recent reprint? (easily available) I've been wondering about buying a 
Zen book for a while and I guess the time is up. And thank you Caleb for 
pointing out Kathan Brown's volume on Cage's visual art. That's another 
hole I need to fill soon as well.

-- 

Stefano

"When we separate music from
  life what we get is art
  (a compendium of masterpieces)" - John Cage