About this title: Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing through").
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan
Date Published: 1961-06-15
ISBN-13:9780819560285ISBN:0819560286
Description: Good. Good title in good condition. Contains highlighting throughout. Few pages with written notes as well. Covers show some shelf wear and creasing. Satisfaction guaranteed. If item not as described, return for refund of purchase price. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, NH
Date Published: 1961
ISBN-13:9780819560285ISBN:0819560286
Description: Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Softcover reprint. Near Fine. Laminated stiff wraps, 276 pp.; a hint of curling to corners, else clean and crisp. Perhaps Cage's most important work on experimental music. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
Date Published: 1961-06-01
ISBN-13:9780819560285ISBN:0819560286
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780819560285. read more
Description: Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" tall, Trade paperback. White wraps no longer sparkling, very light shelfwear, edges tanned. Binding tight and square. 276 pages. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Pictorial Wraps
Publisher: M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MASS
Date Published: 1966
Description: FINE in VG WRAPS. Almost Square 8vo (7 x 8-1/4), 276 pp. Text is Unmarked and FINE, page edge block corners slightly soiled, wraps slightly tanned with some creases, but still VG. No rips or tears or markings on either text or wraps. One of the few copies run in the first MIT printing. (h) Thoughts and writings of one of the 20th Century's geniuses--insights on composers (Satie, Varese, Schonberg) on artists and mystics (Rauschenberg, Meister Eckhardt) on Zen and Dada and Random Chaos. The ... read more
Binding: Cloth (Hardcover)
Publisher: Calder and Boyars Ltd, London
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. Jacket: Good. Ex Library. 8vo. 276pp. Evidence of former library status otherwise a sound copy in a slightly frayed dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Description: Very Good. B000JUSOS6 Wesleyan University Press, CT, 1961. Hard cover, first edition. Minor wear to the edges of the boards, otherwise VG condition with no dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Ct
Date Published: 1961
Description: Near Fine in Very Good Plus jacket. Large 8vo. Hardcover in dust jacket, black cloth with embossed signature to cover, white and copper lettering to spine, top edge pale orange., dj has some rubbing to spine, less to main panels. one superficial scratch, one tiny closed edge-tear. clean, no writing or markings, sound binding, a very well preserved copy.; states first edition.; xii-276pp., contains many writings, articles, lectures by great composer. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT
Date Published: 1961
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. 276 pages First edition, first printing. A collection of his papers, many printed here for the first time. They state his stance on composition by chance, the value of ambient noise, Zen, mushrooms, and much more. The famous "Lecture on Nothing" is included. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, Middleton, Connecticut
Date Published: 1961
Description: Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine copper and white, author's name blindstamped to cover, decorative endpapers. With the dust jacket. A very nice copy in the somewhat rubbed and tanned price-clipped dust jacket. First edition? John Cage (1912-1992) was an American experimental composer well known for his piece 4'33''-four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence. This volume collects a number of his essays on many subjects, from avant-guarde composition and eastern philosophy to ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan
Date Published: 1961-06-15
ISBN-13:9780819560285ISBN:0819560286
Description: Very Good. Never read, new copy, slight shelf wear otherwise keeps it from being "as new, flawless". Said wear is noted at the very top couple millimeters of the front cover's corner and in a very small crease midway down on the cover. Over all a level of storage wear that wouldn't be considered unacceptable in a new book. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ Pr of New England
Date Published: 1961
ISBN-13:9780819560285ISBN:0819560286
Description: Paperback. May include moderately worn cover, writing, markings or slight discoloration. May include moderately worn cover, writing, markings or slight discoloration. SKU: 25030381 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780819560285 May include moderately worn cover, writing, markings or slight discoloration. May include moderately worn cover, writing, markings or slight discoloration. SKU: 25030381 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money ... read more
"Reviewing these writings again after some years, I find new meanings in them. Mostly I am inspired by how hard Cage worked to find a form for his ideas that was also an experiential example of the idea itself. Many of these essays are performance pieces; it is impressive how he tried to make the form of the lecture/performance reflect the content."
"Wherein John Cage predicts hip-hop in 1937. If you fear the disillusionment that will result from seeing every single one of Brian Eno's ideas in print and dated from before he started art school, then don't read this. Also, mushrooms."
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