Isa Genzken – URLAUB / HOLIDAY. New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2000. Tiny small 12vo in wraps as issued. 135 pp. Illustrated. Text in both German and English. Fine clean copy
Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933 – 1957, on Anni & Josef Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson a.m.o. Spector Books, 2019. 464 pages, with black-and-white reproductions throughout. New copy.
London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1986. 8vo. Softcover. 269 pp. Illustrated. Name to title page and some pencil notes in chapter five and two pages a bit soiled else overall a good to very good solid copy of this hard-to-find item
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…