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Art. Music. Cultural Writing. JOHN CAGE VISUAL ART is an exquisite book which includes 116 color images. It is presented in three parts. The first is a text wrtten from Kathan Brown's own experience. In it, she often uses Cage's words to describe particular works, and she reflects upon how the art can be used in the world. The second part is a detailed section that illustrates scores that Cage created for his printers, and explains his use of what he called chance operations in making his work. The third section is pictorial, including reproductions of Cage's prints, watercolors and drawings. John Cage told Brown that the purpose of art is to sober and quiet the mind, so that it is in accord with what happens.

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The book is in three parts. The first is a text written from Brown’s own experience. In it, she often uses Cage’s words to describe particular works, and she reflects upon how the art can be used in the world. The second is a detailed section that illustrates “scores” that Cage created for his printers, and explains his use of what he called “chance operations” in making his work. The third section of the book is pictorial. Cage told Brown that the purpose of art is “to sober and quiet the mind, so that it is in accord with what happens.” The book contains many fine reproductions arranged to invite contemplation, including two complete sets of prints, Dereau, the first among his early visual art works and HV2, done at the end of his life.
Hardcover, 9 x 7."
144 pages with 116 color images.
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Kathan Brown is an artist, writer, printer, and entrepreneur who founded Crown Point Press, publishers of artists' etchings, in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1962. Kathan Brown is the author of six books, the most recent of which is Magical Secrets About Thinking Creatively: The Art of Etching and the Truth of Life (Crown Point/Prestel 2006).

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  • PublisherCrown Point Press
  • Publication date2001
  • ISBN 10 1891300164
  • ISBN 13 9781891300165
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages144
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