"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'A house full of music; strategies in music and art', Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, May 13 to September 9, 2012."--Colophon. Also published in German ed. Series from jacket. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
In the house of music : foreword and acknowledgements / Ralf Beil -- Satie, Duchamp & Co. : a journey to the origins and high points of artistic crossover in the twentieth century / Ralf Beil -- Prologue: Marcel Duchamp ; Erik Satie ; René Clair ; Marcel Duchamp ; Jasper Johns -- Store: Rainer Maria Rilke ; Paul Klee ; László Moholy-Nagy ; John Cage ; Robert Morris ; Carsten Nicolai -- Collage: Erwin Schulhoff ; Max Ernst ; John Cage ; Luciano Berio ; William S. Burroughs ; John Cage -- Be silent: Valeska Gert ; John Cage ; Bruce Nauman ; Joseph Beuys ; Samuel Beckett ; Luigi Nono -- Destroy: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ; John Cage ; Dick Higgins ; Bill Viola ; Einstürzende Neubauten ; Idris Khan -- Calculate: Arnold Schoenberg ; Iannis Xenakis ; Lillian Schwartz -- Roll the dice: Stéphane Mallarmé ; Kurt Schwitters ; Pierre Boulez ; John Cage ; Earle Brown ; Robert Filliou -- Feel: Yoko Ono ; Nam June Paik ; Bernhard Leitner ; Laurie Anderson ; Vilém Flusser ; Anri Sala -- Think: Marcel Duchamp ; Piet Mondrian ; Yoko Ono ; Milan Knížák ; Joseph Beuys ; John Baldessari -- Believe: Arnold Schoenberg ; Karlheinz Stockhausen ; Mauricio Kagel ; Faithless ; Oliver Sturm -- Furnish: Erik Satie ; Brian Eno ; John Cage -- Repeat: Erik Satie ; Novembergruppe ; Peter Roehr ; Bruce Nauman ; William Carlos Williams ; Ragnar Kjartansson -- Play: Luigi Russolo ; Fortunato Depero ; Nam June Paik ; Cathy Berberian ; Henning Christiansen ; Gerhard Rühm ; Mike Kelley ; Nevin Aladaǧ ; Heiner Goebbels -- Turbulences : a small construction set on John Cage (1912-1992) on his aesthetics and reception in his own words accompanied by some commentaries / Stefan Fricke -- In the music museum of the present : music exhibitions as extended concerts : a foray into the history of the representation of music and the visual arts / Peter Kraut -- 214 questions and 19 cigarettes : chronological notes on John Cage's first visit to the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music in 1958 / Thomas Schäfer.
Summary:
Before John Cage (1912-1992), there was hardly anyone as consistent as he was in questioning the boundaries of music and its connections to other fields of art and the everyday world. Along with Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, Nam June Paik, and Joseph Beuys, Cage is one of the greatest strategists and pioneers of twentieth-century music and art. Starting with these key figures, this publication examines twelve fundamental strategies of art and music since 1900: recording, collage, silence, destruction, calculation, coincidence, feeling, thought, belief, furnishing, repetition, and playing. Interdisciplinary essays by art and music theorists as well as exemplary works and original sources by artists, musicians, and composers are featured alongside visual documentation, showing the impressive diversity of parallel and overlapping activities between music and art from Laurie Anderson and Robert Filliou to Anri Sala and Iannis Xenakis.
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