Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: expanding my library

Thank you, Rob.

There's going to be a final encore at the Hayward Project Space in  
London from around 12 August if we can slip away...

Best wishes,
Jeremy


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Jeremy Millar
http://www.jeremymillar.org


Geoffrey Farmer and Jeremy Millar
Mondegreen
Project Arts Centre
Dublin
8 July – 20 August 2011



On 26 Jun 2011, at 17:28, Rob Haskins wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> This is a lovely book and I'm glad you mentioned it. I only wish I  
> could have gotten over to see the exhibition!
>
> Best,
> Rob
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Jeremy Millar  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Although I'm somewhat reluctant to mention it, for those interested  
> in Cage's visual art, here's the book we published to accompany the  
> touring exhibition of his work here in the UK:
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Every-Day-Good-Visual-John/dp/1853322830/ 
> ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309105228&sr=1-1
>
> The works were photographed especially for this publication and so  
> are of the highest quality; it also contains new interviews with  
> Laura Kuhn, Kathan Brown, Ray Kass, and Julie Lazar, and an old  
> interview with Irving Sandler. There's also an introduction by  
> myself, and a Cage compendium rounds things off...
>
> Best wishes,
> Jeremy
>
>
> ______________________________________________
>
> Jeremy Millar
> http://www.jeremymillar.org
>
>
> Geoffrey Farmer and Jeremy Millar
> Mondegreen
> Project Arts Centre
> Dublin
> 8 July – 20 August 2011
>
>
>
> On 26 Jun 2011, at 15:33, Stefano Pocci wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>
>
>
>
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