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Cage, John, 1912-1992

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1912-09-05 - 1992-08-12

Found in 279 Collections and/or Records:

Fluxus Etc./Addenda II: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection / Jon Hendricks, curator ; Brecht G ; Cage J ; Friedman K ; Higgins D ; Knizak M ; Miller L ; Ono Y ; Ben., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11587-11803
Scope and Contents

This exhibition consists mainly of Fluxus instructional drawings, writings and typings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Footnotes: Collage Journal 30 years, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34701-36404
Scope and Contents

Jerome Rothenberg contributes a pre-face in which he writes that "Footnotes, presented here, is the accounting of where Alison Knowles' feet (and hands and mind) have taken her." The pages of this book are reproductions of notebook pages dating from 1975 to 1995, inscribed and collaged by Knowles. As Knowles herself stated, "It is important to remember that we are free to make art and poetry out of anything: A loaf of bread, some beans, a hasty jotting on the train." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

For the Birds: In Conversation with Daniel Charles / Cage, John ; McLuhan M ; Fuller B ; Duchamp M ; Joyce J ; Berberian C ; Tudor D ; Young L ; Feldman M ; Wolff C ; Wittgenstein L ; Riley T ; Kaprow A ; Higgins D ; Cunningham M ; Paik NJ ; Satie E., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-16646-17000
Scope and Contents

The introduction of this book by Cage has an experimental typographic layout. The remainder consists of a standard layout of questions and answers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

From the Library of R. Buckminster Fuller / Horowitz, Glenn ; Cage J ; Vostell W ; Higgins D ; Bayer H ; Kepes G ; Bradbury R ; Williams J ; Schlossberg E ; McLuhan M ; Corita M., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43525-45598
Scope and Contents

The books listed were from Fuller's library and often inscribed to him. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Generator & Another Incomplete Understanding / Byrum, John M. ; Cage J ; Hartman A., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-44752-46918
Scope and Contents

The poems are based on chance operations as used by John Cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

George Brecht - Notebooks I- II- III / Brecht, George ; Cage J., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-39010-40947
Scope and Contents

These facsimile notebooks in Brecht's handwriting are studies for his performance pieces, critical writings, experimental musical scores, poem objects and chance images. One volume is a replica of Brecht's class notes from the summer of 1958 taught by John Cage. Dieter Daniels was the editor with the collaboration of Hermann Braun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Hand Papermaking. No.2 / Cage J., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09794-9988
Scope and Contents

Bernie Toale describes "the edible drawings of John Cage" in an essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Hyper Rhizomes / Hubaut, Joel; Cage J; Beuys J; Malevich K., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30915-32370
Scope and Contents

This drawing appears to be a flow chart for a computer program. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

I-VI: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1988-1989 / Cage, John., 1990

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Identifier: CC-20053-20447
Scope and Contents

The subjects of the tape cassettes are Questions and Answers, and, Reading Mesostic IV. They are stored in the Cage portfolio box with other material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Interchange: A poem of Los Angeles [Unpublished Shimshaw Press Version Manuscript] / Hirschman, Jack A.; Cage J., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55044-998895
Scope and Contents

This work was planned for publication in 200 copies in a handwritten version. This version of the poem was never published but a modified manuscript version led to publication in a typeset version by Zora Gallery in 1964. This book written in the style of Mallarme's "Un Coup De Des," and entitled Interchange for John Cage is also held by the Sackner Archive. The word 'frammis" present in this poem is a slang word for a technical term unknown to the reader, e.g., its synonym "what you may call it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Interchange for John Cage / Hirschman, Jack A.; Brandi J; Schwarm H; Cage J., 1964

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Identifier: CC-29705-31080
Scope and Contents

This story about a day spent driving an automobile on a Los Angeles freeway was designed in the style of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des. The Sackner Archive also holds the archive for this work. The first 22 copies were signed by Hirschman; this copy is signed and inscribed but is out of series. The design and typography were done by John Brandi and Harold Schwarm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Interchange for John Cage [Zora Gallery Version] / Hirschman, Jack A.; Cage J., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-29706-31081
Scope and Contents

This story is about a day spent driving an automobile on a Los Angeles freeway was designed in the style of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des. The Sackner Archive also holds the archive for this work. One typed manuscript has the layout but not the typographic appearance of the published work. The other two that are handwritten provide that appearance. The basis for the writing of this work is discussed by Hirschman in Kulchur No.14, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964