UVA Press announces the publication of THE SIGHT OF SILENCE: John Cage's Complete Watercolors

The University of Virginia Press announces the publication of THE SIGHT 
OF SILENCE: John Cage's Complete Watercolors by Ray Kass (September 
2011; distributed for the Taubman Museum of Art and the National Academy 
Museum): http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/kass.HTM

For more information, please contact Emily Grandstaff at 434-982-2932 / 
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Nearly twenty years after his death, John Cage (1912-1992)'s influence 
is still being felt throughout the worlds of music, performance, and 
visual art. His groundbreaking ideas and unconventional practice helped 
lay the foundation for numerous aspects of contemporary art and music. 
Now, timed to accompany the largest American exhibition of Cage's visual 
work since 1993 (National Academy Museum, September 2012), THE SIGHT OF 
SILENCE offers the first opportunity to see all 125 signed watercolors 
that Cage created at the Mountain Lake Workshop in Virginia between 1983 
and 1990, as well as many examples of his other visual art works, 
scores, and documentary photos of Cage at work.

Kass chronicles this exploration through a critical essay and workshop 
diaries that relate the methods at play in Cage's visual art to those of 
his musical compositions and theater pieces. The accompanying DVD offers 
a "live" view of John Cage at work, featuring a public reading with 
audience discussion, as well as an interview with him about his 
watercolor paintings.

Ray Kass is a painter and writer who lives in the rural Appalachian 
Mountains of Virginia. He is Emeritus Professor of Studio Art at 
Virginia Tech and Founder and Director of the Mountain Lake Workshop, an 
ongoing series of community-based collaborative art projects. His 
paintings have been widely exhibited, and he is author of 'Morris 
Graves: Vision of the Inner-Eye' and co-author, with Stephen Addiss, of 
'John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures.'

September 2011
144 pages, 7 3/4 x 11, 150 color and 43 b&w illustrations
$34.95T cloth with DVD / ISBN 978-0-615-40180-5
PO Box 400318 / Charlottesville, Virginia / 22904-4318
PHONE: 434-982-2932 / COURIER: 210 Sprigg Lane 22903
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-- 
Emily K. Grandstaff
Marketing and Publicity Manager
University of Virginia Press
Box 400318
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318

Telephone: 434-982-2932
Fax: 434-982-2655

Books: http://www.upress.virginia.edu
Digital: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu
Facebook: http://facebook.com/uvapress
Twitter: http://twitter.com/uvapress