The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete Watercolors
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (785 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0615401805 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Publishers Weekly Review The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete WatercolorsRay Kass. Taubman Museum of Art (Univ. of Virginia, dist.), $3Publishers Weekly Review tumacs The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete WatercolorsRay Kass. Taubman Museum of Art (Univ. of Virginia, dist.), $34.95 (144p) ISBN 9780615401805Composer and performer John Cage (1912-1992), the epitome of the avant-garde artist, expanded from music composition into the world of visual art, and employed the philosophy of non-intention. His use of indeterminate notation was his greatest contribution to music and he carried it over into his watercolors. Cage too. .95 (1Publishers Weekly Review tumacs The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete WatercolorsRay Kass. Taubman Museum of Art (Univ. of Virginia, dist.), $34.95 (144p) ISBN 9780615401805Composer and performer John Cage (1912-1992), the epitome of the avant-garde artist, expanded from music composition into the world of visual art, and employed the philosophy of non-intention. His use of indeterminate notation was his greatest contribution to music and he carried it over into his watercolors. Cage too. Publishers Weekly Review tumacs The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete WatercolorsRay Kass. Taubman Museum of Art (Univ. of Virginia, dist.), $34.95 (144p) ISBN 9780615401805Composer and performer John Cage (1912-1992), the epitome of the avant-garde artist, expanded from music composition into the world of visual art, and employed the philosophy of non-intention. His use of indeterminate notation was his greatest contribution to music and he carried it over into his watercolors. Cage too. p) ISBN 9780615Publishers Weekly Review tumacs The Sight of Silence: John Cage's Complete WatercolorsRay Kass. Taubman Museum of Art (Univ. of Virginia, dist.), $34.95 (144p) ISBN 9780615401805Composer and performer John Cage (1912-1992), the epitome of the avant-garde artist, expanded from music composition into the world of visual art, and employed the philosophy of non-intention. His use of indeterminate notation was his greatest contribution to music and he carried it over into his watercolors. Cage too. 01805Composer and performer John Cage (1912-1992), the epitome of the avant-garde artist, expanded from music composition into the world of visual art, and employed the philosophy of non-intention. His use of indeterminate notation was his greatest contribution to music and he carried it over into his watercolors. Cage too. zen master basically, this volume is everything you need to know to embrace zen consciousness, if you know where and how to perceive it. cage is, in every way, an art master. perhaps best known as a composer and poet, here, in the loving and talented collaboration of Ray Kass, Cage soars with unique vision and visual intellect. They render zen clear and accessible. As a painter soaked in inks, watercolor and oils for 50 years, beating myself senseless against the Art Mach. Great insight in the graphic aspect of John Cage This is a great book that records day by day a workshop that Cage attended to print and paint some watercolors with very specific details. How the paintings are printed here is not in a big format, but they actually give you a lot of detail about the process of their origin.It comes with a DVD that I haven't checked yet. Nonetheless, a great oportunity to check out this aspect of this complete artist.
Cage produced his series, River Rocks and Smoke, using papers burned and pressed, then painted with various washes, and finally outlined using local stones from the New River. His depth of purpose is evident here, as is Cage's incredible talent. (Publishers Weekly)These remarkable paintings bring together fire (for smoked paper), water (the paint and washes), earth (both pigments and river stones for tracing), and wind (the all-important breath) in exciting ways that suggest the great silence that is possible when we allow ourselves to get out of the way. He continued to work on this project at Virginia's Mountain Lake Workshop in Virginia, founded
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. The Sight of Silence: John Cage’s Complete Watercolors provides the first opportunity to see all 125 signed watercolors that Cage created during four week-long sessions at the Mountain Lake Workshop, Virginia, between 1983 and 1990.In all of his work, regardless of medium, Cage consistently dismissed conventional aesthe
His paintings have been widely exhibited, and he is author of Morris Graves: Vision of the Inner-Eye and coauthor, with Stephen Addiss, of John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures.. 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