Edited by Nicholas Baume. MIT Press: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art., Cambridge, MA, 2001. Landscape 4to in white wraps with black lettering as issued. 112 pages, with numerous illustrations. Fine clean copy
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.
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
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…