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John Cage - How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
Siglio 2015 ISBN 9781938221101 Acqn 25204
Hb 15x22cm 176pp 145col ills 24.50
Composed over the course of 16 years, John Cage's Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will
Only Make Matters Worse) is one of his most prescient and personal works. A repository of
observations, anecdotes, obsessions, jokes and koan like stories, the diary registers Cage's
assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny predictions about the
world we live in now. With a great sense of play as well as purpose, Cage traverses vast territory,
from postwar music to Watergate, from domestic minutiae to ideas on how to feed the world.
Typing on an IBM Selectric, Cage used chance operations to determine not only the word count
and the application of various typefaces but also the number of letters per line, the patterns of
indentation and--in the case of Part Three (published as a Great Bear pamphlet by Something
Else Press)--color. The beautiful and unusual visual variances become almost musical as the
physicality of the language on the page suggests the sonic. This first complete hardcover edition
collects all eight parts Cage originally published in A Year from Monday, M and X. Coeditors Kraft
and Biel have consulted these publications along with Cage's original manuscripts, and--with the
Great Bear pamphlet as a guide--they have used chance operations to render the entire text in
various combinations of red and blue as well as apply a set of 18 typefaces to the entire work.
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Lead Kindly Light + 2 CDs of Old Time , Blues And Gospel Music 1924-1939
Dust-to-Digital 2015 ISBN 9780981734262 Acqn 25687
Hb 17x22cm 176pp 156ills 10col 31
A portrait of the rural American South between the dawn of the 20th century and the Second
World War, Lead Kindly Light brings together two CDs of traditional music from early phonograph
records and a handsome clothbound volume of never-before-published vernacular photography
from the region. North Carolina collectors Peter Honig and Sarah Bryan, a husband-and-wife
team, have spent years combing the back roads, from deep in the Appalachian Mountains to the
cotton and tobacco lowlands, in search of the evocative music and images of the pre-War South.
The music of Lead Kindly Light (which borrows its name from a 1927 recording by the Loveless
Twins Quartet) presents outstanding lesser-known recordings by early stars of recorded country
music, as well as rarely and never-reissued treasures by obscure country, blues and gospel
artists--46 recordings in all, recorded between 1924 and 1939, from the 78 RPM collection of
Peter Honig. The images from Sarah Bryan's vernacular photography collection, mainly pictures
of the rural and small-town South found in the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee, are richly
textured depictions of family life, work and leisure, and fine exemplars of the often accidental
beauty of the vernacular snapshot.
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Blair Thurman
Karma 2015 ISBN 9781938560934 Acqn 25519
Pb 22x30cm 168pp 150col ills 35
Blair Thurman (born 1961) creates work at the intersection of Pop art, abstract geometric art of
the 50s and 60s and Americana. This volume presents his most recent abstract pieces--most of
them painted on canvas covering shaped stretchers--alongside an essay by critic and curator
Vincent Pcoil.
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Chen Zhen - Without Going To New York And Paris, Life Could Be Internationalized
Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791789 Acqn 25689
Hb 17x24cm 240pp 210col ills 27
Edited by Li Qi. Texts by Larys Frogier, Hou Hanru.
Chen Zhen (19552000) is largely recognized as one of the most important artists of the global
art scene. His work thrived from his singular and intense life experience of migrating and working
across different continents and cultures. The recent exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum in
Chens native city of Shanghai reflected on his lifework, at once unique and complex, critical and
optimistic, and its attempts to provide innovative responses to the diverse challenges of the
changing world, from the end of the Cold War to the rise of of global capitalism and new
geopolitical conflicts. Chen proposed to constantly re-examine the realities and histories of what
he viewed as an exciting new world, full of problemslike a giant with an over muscled body and
an exhausted heart.
This catalogue presents an art-historical angle on Chen Zhens unique way of questioning his
experience of globalisation through art. It includes documentation of the eponymous exhibition at
Rockbund Art Museum (May 30October 7, 2015), along with detailed sketches of both existing
and unrealised projects.
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Letter To My Dear
Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789187543227 Acqn 25685
Hb 14x21cm 200pp 28.95
In this beautifully designed book, Lennart Grebelius, a philanthropist/businessman/artist, uses art
to turn abstract ideas into tangible objects. With Letter To My Dear, Grebelius takes on eternity.
He asks a simple question that sheds light on a very real and very moral dilemma: What can we
demand of our children? And of their children?
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