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Article: California palace of the legion of honor/Crown point press: John Cage. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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During the last fifteen years of his life, avant-garde composer John Cage produced a substantial body of visual art, mainly in the form of prints. Beginning in 1978, he visited Crown Point Press for a week or two almost every year. There, working closely with the press's master printers, he made art using methods borrowed from his approach to musical composition. He allowed every aspect of a print to be determined by what he described as "chance operations" (reading from the I Ching, throwing dice, and so on). The complex notations that serve as a record of these operations, referred to by Cage as scores or maps, dictated the actions he and the printers were to take-- from ...
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... ... preened cats of all shapes, sizes and breeds lazed about in cages covered with colorful curtains, waiting their turns to go before ... she said. Judges, meanwhile, took cats out of their holding cages and examined them from head to tail, checking out everything ...
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