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Dancing around the bride : Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp / edited by Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle ; with essay by Calvin Tomkins, text selection by Reinaldo Laddaga, and chronology by Paul B. Franklin.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2013.Description: 432 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780300189254
  • 0300189257
  • 9780876332429
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Contents:
Foreword / Timothy Rub
Openness and Grace / Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle
Asking the Question / Calvin Tomkins
ANTHOLOGY Introduction / Reinaldo Laddaga
EARLY REFLECTIONS ContiNuance / Nicolas Calas
Introduction to "The Bride and the bachelors" / Calvin Tomkins
The end of the renaissance? / Leonard B. Meyer
26 statements re Duchamp / John Cage
Modern dance / Jill Johnston
JOHNS AND DUCHAMP? Duchamp / Jasper Johns
Johns and Duchamp / Max Kozloff
Johns-I / David Sylvester
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) / Jasper Johns
TWO DIAGNOSES The aesthetics of silence / Susan Sontag
Reflections on the state of criticism / Leo Steinberg
ARTISTS TALK The dances II / Merce Cunningham
John Cage on Marcel Duchamp: an interview / Moira and William Roth
Statement / Merce Cunningham
Statement / Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Smithson on Duchamp: an interview / Moira Roth
DEBATING COMPOSERS Notes on Marcel Duchamp's music / Gavin Bryars
Hearing/seeing / Michael Nyman
Cage and Duchamp / Daniel Charles
H.C.E. (here comes everybody) / Morton Feldman in conversation with Peter Gena
INTO THE 1970S Rauschenberg and the materialized image / Rosalind Krauss
The aesthetic of indifference / Moira Roth
LATE RECOLLECTIONS Preface to "James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: an alphabet" / John Cage
In conversation with Joan Retallack, October 22, 1991 / John Cage
Letter to Francis M. Naumann / Robert Rauschenberg
Reunion: John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, electronic music, and chess / Lowell M. Cross
Merce on Marcel: an interview with Merce Cunningham / Paul B. Franklin
CHRONOLOGY Between art and life, art as life: a chronology of the lives and work of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg / Paul B. Franklin
PLATES John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp
Summary: This book explores the interwoven lives, radical art, and shared experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp and four of America's most important postwar artists: composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. The publication traces the relationships among all five of these artists by mapping their intersections and examining the depth of their artistic exchanges. At the heart of the publication is an anthology of key texts from selected interviews, magazine articles, and book excerpts, by scholars, critics, and the artists themselves, that together narrate the younger generation's first connections to Duchamp and his work, which would profoundly redefine his legacy as well as the entire field of contemporary art. A new text by Calvin Tomkins provides an insightful first-person account of his encounters with these artists at a key moment in the 1960s. The book also includes the first extensive chronology that recounts the lives, art, and common projects of this influential group of artists.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.730904 BAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00743

In slipcase.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Dancing around the bride, at Philidelphia Museum of Art, October 30 2012 - Jaunuary 21 2013, and Barbican Art Gallery, London, February 14 - June 9 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Timothy Rub

Openness and Grace / Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle

Asking the Question / Calvin Tomkins

ANTHOLOGY Introduction / Reinaldo Laddaga

EARLY REFLECTIONS ContiNuance / Nicolas Calas

Introduction to "The Bride and the bachelors" / Calvin Tomkins

The end of the renaissance? / Leonard B. Meyer

26 statements re Duchamp / John Cage

Modern dance / Jill Johnston

JOHNS AND DUCHAMP? Duchamp / Jasper Johns

Johns and Duchamp / Max Kozloff

Johns-I / David Sylvester

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) / Jasper Johns

TWO DIAGNOSES The aesthetics of silence / Susan Sontag

Reflections on the state of criticism / Leo Steinberg

ARTISTS TALK The dances II / Merce Cunningham

John Cage on Marcel Duchamp: an interview / Moira and William Roth

Statement / Merce Cunningham

Statement / Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Smithson on Duchamp: an interview / Moira Roth

DEBATING COMPOSERS Notes on Marcel Duchamp's music / Gavin Bryars

Hearing/seeing / Michael Nyman

Cage and Duchamp / Daniel Charles

H.C.E. (here comes everybody) / Morton Feldman in conversation with Peter Gena

INTO THE 1970S Rauschenberg and the materialized image / Rosalind Krauss

The aesthetic of indifference / Moira Roth

LATE RECOLLECTIONS Preface to "James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: an alphabet" / John Cage

In conversation with Joan Retallack, October 22, 1991 / John Cage

Letter to Francis M. Naumann / Robert Rauschenberg

Reunion: John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, electronic music, and chess / Lowell M. Cross

Merce on Marcel: an interview with Merce Cunningham / Paul B. Franklin

CHRONOLOGY Between art and life, art as life: a chronology of the lives and work of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg / Paul B. Franklin

PLATES John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp

This book explores the interwoven lives, radical art, and shared experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp and four of America's most important postwar artists: composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. The publication traces the relationships among all five of these artists by mapping their intersections and examining the depth of their artistic exchanges. At the heart of the publication is an anthology of key texts from selected interviews, magazine articles, and book excerpts, by scholars, critics, and the artists themselves, that together narrate the younger generation's first connections to Duchamp and his work, which would profoundly redefine his legacy as well as the entire field of contemporary art. A new text by Calvin Tomkins provides an insightful first-person account of his encounters with these artists at a key moment in the 1960s. The book also includes the first extensive chronology that recounts the lives, art, and common projects of this influential group of artists.