Diary: how to improve the world: (you will only make matters worse)

Part I. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) 1965 -- Part II. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1966 -- Part III. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1967 -- Part IV. Diary: How to impro...

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1. Verfasser: Cage, John 1912-1992 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Biel, Joe 1966- (HerausgeberIn), Kraft, Richard (HerausgeberIn), Rosen, David W. (VerfasserIn eines Nachworts)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Siglio 2019
Ausgabe:Expanded edition, first paperback edition
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Zusammenfassung:Part I. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) 1965 -- Part II. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1966 -- Part III. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1967 -- Part IV. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1968 (revised) -- Part V. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1969 (part V) -- Part VI. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1970-71 -- Part VII. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1971-72 -- Part VIII. Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1973-82 -- Editor's note / Richard Kraft and Joe Biel -- The eleventh thunderclap / David Rose -- A selection of pages from the incomplete and unpublished Part IX.
Now available in an expanded paperback edition, 'Diary' registers Cage's assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny portents about the world we live in now. With a great sense of play as well as purpose, Cage traverses vast territory, from the domestic minutiae of everyday life to ideas about how to feed the world. He used chance operations to determine not only the word count and the application of various typefaces but also the number of letters per line, the patterns of indentation, and-- in the case of Part Three, originally published by Something Else Press-- color. The unusual visual variances on the page become almost musical as language takes on a physical and aural presence. While Cage used chance operations to expand the possibilities of creating and shaping his work beyond the limitations of individual taste, 'Diary' nonetheless accumulates into a complex reflection of Cage's sensibilities as a thinker and citizen of the world, illuminating his social and political awareness, as well as his idealism and sense of humor: it becomes an oblique but indelible portrait of one the most influential figures of the 20th-century American avant-garde. This expanded paperback edition reproduces the 2015 hardback edition, with a new essay by mycologist and Cage aficionado David Rose and, most important, an addendum that includes many facsimile pages of Cage's handwritten notebook of a ninth part in progress, bringing the reader into compelling proximity to Cage's process and the raw material from which 'Diary' was made
Beschreibung:Book and cover design: Natalie Kraft
Beschreibung:199 Seiten Illustrationen 21 cm
ISBN:9781938221217
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