The piece 4’33” premiered on August 29, 1952; four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like? Cage’s questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume-the most comprehensive on the piece to date-brings together…
Fluxus Scores and Instructions. Detroit: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection & Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Edited by Marianne Bech & Media Farzin with Jon Hendricks. Tall 4to in publishers stiff wraps as issued. 230 pages. Richly illustrated, partly in color. Text in English. Very good clean unread…
Wesleyan University Press,1983 (1973). Squarish softcover. (12), 217 pages. Fine clean and attractive copy Includes the texts “Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)”, and “Mushroom Book”. These early printings are much better than the more recent new