Wholesale Selected Letters of John Cage

by John Cage and Laura Kuhn (Editor) Letters of an avant-garde icon available to the public for the first time. This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early trips to Europe in the 1930s through his years with the dancer Merce Cunningham, and shed new light on his growing eminence as an iconic performance artist of the American avant-garde. Cage's joie de vivre resounds in these letters — fully annotated throughout — in every phase of his career, and includes correspondence with Peter Yates, David Tudor, and Pierre Boulez, among others. Pub Date: 2016 Format: Hardback Pages: 674 Size: 9.75 x 6.50 x 1.90 inches ISBN: 9780819575913