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John Cage: Prints, drawings and watercolors, 1978--1992.

Paula Oliver. Rau Virginia Commonwealth University. 2005

Dissertation Abstracts International 66-02A.

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John Cage: Prints, drawings and watercolors, 1978--1992.
著者: Paula Oliver. Rau
Virginia Commonwealth University.
主題: Art History; Fine Arts
所屬期刊: Dissertation Abstracts International 66-02A.
描述: John Cage is esteemed as an experimental composer, and as an inspiration to the neo-avant-garde. He also produced a scantly examined, but substantial body of visual work before his death in 1992. It included over 670 prints, 150 drawings and 114 watercolor paintings. This study will demonstrate that far from being inconsequential addenda to Cage's oeuvre, these works represent the culmination of his thinking.
Through allusions to Duchamp, Zen and Thoreau, Cages attempts to point out shared ideas within the traditions of Europe, Asia and America that he sees as forerunners to the view of nature he espouses, later to be corroborated in modern chaos theory. Using the same system of chance based on the I Ching for creating his visual art that he used for his composition-one which he sees as allied with science, Cage begins to use stones as matrices to draw and paint around, and smoked paper and watercolor washes as indexes of a phenomenal world to which his art is a response.
This study demonstrates that in Cage's visual art, the immediacy and physicality of his experience led Cage to an understanding of his role as an artist that differs from his more removed role of a composer. In keeping with the Zen adage that "an enlightened mind includes even itself," Cage steps back from his disavowal of self-expression and begins to see "mindful" aesthetic choice within the possibilities provided by his use of the I Ching as an acceptable part of nature's manner of operation. Comfortable that his own practices are guided by his attunement to nature, he acknowledges his role as a secular avatar, returning himself and others to a renewed experience of the world through his art.
出版者: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2005.
建立日期: 2005
格式: 228 p..
語言: 英文
識別號: ISBN0542019566
資源來源: NUTN ALEPH

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