Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Emily Grandstaff <>]

The University of Virginia Press announces the publication of THE SIGHT OF SILENCE: John Cage's Complete Watercolors by Ray Kass (September 2011; distributed for the Taubman Museum of Art and the National Academy Museum): http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/kass.HTM
 
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Nearly twenty years after his death, John Cage (1912-1992)’s influence is still being felt throughout the worlds of music, performance, and visual art. His groundbreaking ideas and unconventional practice helped lay the foundation for numerous aspects of contemporary art and music. Now, timed to accompany the largest American exhibition of Cage’s visual work since 1993 (National Academy Museum, September 2012), THE SIGHT OF SILENCE offers the first opportunity to see all 125 signed watercolors that Cage created at the Mountain Lake Workshop in Virginia between 1983 and 1990, as well as many examples of his other visual art works, scores, and documentary photos of Cage at work.
 
Kass chronicles this exploration through a critical essay and workshop diaries that relate the methods at play in Cage’s visual art to those of his musical compositions and theater pieces. The accompanying DVD offers a “live” view of John Cage at work, featuring a public reading with audience discussion, as well as an interview with him about his watercolor paintings.
 
Ray Kass is a painter and writer who lives in the rural Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. He is Emeritus Professor of Studio Art at Virginia Tech and Founder and Director of the Mountain Lake Workshop, an ongoing series of community-based collaborative art projects. His paintings have been widely exhibited, and he is author of 'Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner-Eye' and co-author, with Stephen Addiss, of 'John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures.'
 
September 2011
144 pages, 7 3/4 x 11, 150 color and 43 b&w illustrations
$34.95T cloth with DVD / ISBN 978-0-615-40180-5
PO Box 400318 / Charlottesville, Virginia / 22904-4318
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Marketing and Publicity Manager
University of Virginia Press
Box 400318
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318

Telephone: 434-982-2932
Fax: 434-982-2655

Books: http://www.upress.virginia.edu
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