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John Cage

Los Angeles, United States, 1912 - New York, United States, 1992

The American composer John Cage (1912–1992) defined a radical practice of “experimental” musical composition that not only changed the course of modern music and dance, but generated a new horizon for the art of the late-twentieth century. Born in Los Angeles, Cage moved to New York in the early 1940s, performed extensively in Europe throughout the 1950s, and made an international name for himself by continually questioning the conventions of music. Cage’s more than fifty-year career ushered in numerous formal, structural, temporal, and media innovations that remain cornerstones of contemporary consciousness.

The Cage's career unfolds decade by decade: from percussion music (1930s), to “prepared piano” compositions (1940s), to chance and indeterminacy (1950s), to new media (1960s onward), through to the political focus that ever more explicitly informed the works of the last decades of his life.

Works in the Collection

Painting New River Watercolor Series IV
John Cage
New River Watercolor Series IV
1988
Collage Cadaqués 1
John Cage
Cadaqués 1
1982
Collage Cadaqués 2
John Cage
Cadaqués 2
1982
Drawing Sense títol
John Cage
Sense títol
1991
Graphic material [Telegrama a Lanfranco Bombelli]
John Cage
[Telegrama a Lanfranco Bombelli]
10/9/1981
Sound recording Études Australes (complete)
John Cage, Grete Sultan
Études Australes (complete)
1974
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Exhibitions

Exhibition The Anarchy of Silence
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The Anarchy of Silence John Cage and Experimental Art

Related Archive documents

Archive document L'anarquia del silenci. John Cage i l'art experimental [Reportatge fotogràfic exposició]
L'anarquia del silenci. John Cage i l'art experimental [Reportatge fotogràfic exposició]
23/10/2009-10/01/2010
Archive document An Anthology of chance operations ... / by George Brecht ... [et al.] ; La Monte Young, editor ; George Maciunas, designer
An Anthology of chance operations ... / by George Brecht ... [et al.] ; La Monte Young, editor ; George Maciunas, designer
1970
Archive document Enseigner et apprendre, arts vivants / par Robert Filliou et le lecteur, s'il le désire ; avec la participation de John Cage ... [et al.] ; et une post-face de Anne Moeglin-Delcroix ; traduction Juliane Régler, Christine Fondecave
Enseigner et apprendre, arts vivants / par Robert Filliou et le lecteur, s'il le désire ; avec la participation de John Cage ... [et al.] ; et une post-face de Anne Moeglin-Delcroix ; traduction Juliane Régler, Christine Fondecave
1998
Archive document Lehren und Lernen als Auffuehrungskuenste / von Robert Filliou und dem Leser, wenn er will ; unter Mitwerkung von John Cage ... [et al.] = Teaching and learning as performing arts / by Robert Filliou and the reader, if he wishes ; with the participat
Lehren und Lernen als Auffuehrungskuenste / von Robert Filliou und dem Leser, wenn er will ; unter Mitwerkung von John Cage ... [et al.] = Teaching and learning as performing arts / by Robert Filliou and the reader, if he wishes ; with the participat
1970
Archive document Lehren und Lernen als Auffuehrungskuenste / von Robert Filliou und dem Leser, wenn er will ; unter Mitwerkung von John Cage ... [et al.] = Teaching and learning as performing arts / by Robert Filliou and the reader, if he wishes ; with the participat
Lehren und Lernen als Auffuehrungskuenste / von Robert Filliou und dem Leser, wenn er will ; unter Mitwerkung von John Cage ... [et al.] = Teaching and learning as performing arts / by Robert Filliou and the reader, if he wishes ; with the participat
1970
Archive document Notations / by John Cage
Notations / by John Cage
1969
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