Cage, Cunningham, Johns : dancers on a plane : in memory of their feelings / Susan Sontag with Richard Francis ... [et al.]
By: Sontag, Susan
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Contributor(s): Francis, Richard | Anthony d'Offay (Firm) | Tate Gallery Liverpool.
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BookPublisher: London : Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1989Description: 165 p. (2 folded) : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 30 cm.ISBN: 0947564284.Subject(s): Cage, John -- Exhibitions | Cunningham, Merce -- Exhibitions | Johns, Jasper, 1930- -- Exhibitions | Arts, American -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 709.22
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.22 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00057418 |
Includes 10 poems by Susan Sontag collectively entitled: In memory of their feelings
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, Oct. 31-Dec. 2, 1989, and at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Jan. 23-Mar. 25, 1990
Includes bibliographical references.
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Library Journal Review
London's Anthony D'Offay Gallery was the location of a recent multimedia show involving the collaboration of three highly influential, yet controversial, contemporary American artists: composer John Cage, dancer-choreographer Merce Cunningham, and painter Jasper Johns. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition, this catalog contains reproductions of Cage's musical manuscripts and Johns's paintings along with photographs of Cunningham's lithe movements. It documents their influence upon one another, celebrating close to 50 years of friendship. Yet the addition of Susan Sontag's whimsical verses, essays by art critics, captivating portrait photographs, and detailed chronologies fail to illuminate the complex muddle of ideas. Because of their significance in the avant-garde world, special collections may want this. Otherwise, this is not a necessary purchase.-- Joan Levin, Indian Trails P.L., Wheeling, Ill. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne's College, Oxford University. She was the author of 17 books including four novels, a collection of short stories, several plays, and eight works of nonfiction. Her novels are The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction. On Photography received the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and Art in America. She also wrote and directed four feature films and stage plays in the United States and Europe. She died from leukemia on December 28, 2004 at the age of 71.(Bowker Author Biography)