A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings

by John Cage

Overview

Includes lectures, essays, diaries and other writings, including "How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)" and "Juilliard Lecture."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819560025
Publisher:	Wesleyan University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1967
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	179
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Composer, author, and philosopher, JOHN CAGE was born in Los Angeles in 1912 and by the age of 37 had been recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for having extended the boundaries of music. Cage composed hundreds of works in his career, many depending on chance procedures for their structure and performance. His books include Silence(1961), A Year from Monday(1967), M(1973), Empty woods(1979), X(1983), MUSICAGE(1996), and I-VI(1997). John Cage died in 1992 at the age of 79.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Diary: How to Move the world (you will only make matters worse) 1965
Diary: Emma Lake Music Workshop 1965
Seriously Comma
Happy New Ears!
Two Statements on Ives
Mosaic
Diary: Audience
Diary: How to Improve the World (you will only make matters worse) Continued 1966
26 Statements Re Duchamp
Jasper Johns: Stories and Ideas
Miro in Third Person: 8 Statements
Nam June Paik: A Diary
Where do we go From Here?
Julliard Lecture
Lecture on Commitment
Rhythm Etc.
How to Pass, Kick Fall, and Run: Talk I
Diary: How to Improve the World (you will only make matters worse) Continued 1967

Editorial Reviews

"This book is so rich in ideas relevant to all sorts of artistic, philosophical, and social endeavors, that I doubt if any open-minded and intelligent person would not be challenged [by] this compendium of provocative aphorisms, intellectual absurdities, and formulations so original they will doubtlessly make sense to some, nonsense to others"—Richard Kostelanetz, Denver Quarterly

"Cage's writings does not tell us what to think as much as it makes us think I a particular way cage demonstrates in an unpretentious, subtle ad forceful way the profound spiritual basis of avante-garde art."—American Scholar

"A Year from Monday is a mosaic whose part and whose whole are the same thingand you had better not miss both the forest and the trees; and you better not worry about mixed metaphor along the way."—Martin Last, WBAI – FM, New York City

"This book is so rich in ideas relevant to all sorts of artistic, philosophical, and social endeavors, that I doubt if any open-minded and intelligent person would not be challenged [by] this compendium of provocative aphorisms, intellectual absurdities, and formulations so original they will doubtlessly make sense to some, nonsense to others"—Richard Kostelanetz, Denver Quarterly

"Our first and best all-American dadaist and his prose style is the finest since Gertrude Stein."—Kirkus Reviews

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