Large oversized hardcover – app. 30 x 30 cm. Richly illustrated catalogue from Paris Bibliotheque Nationale, 2011. 243 pages, short text in French, illustrated throughout in color. An excellent clean and attractive copy. First edition, 1st printing.
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…