Oral history interview with John Cage
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 39 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Callahan, Harry M.
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Albers, Josef
label: Names
content: Bird, Bonnie
label: Names
content: Buhlig, Richard, 1880-1952
label: Names
content: Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965
label: Names
content: Cunningham, Merce
label: Names
content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
label: Names
content: Johns, Jasper, 1930-
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
label: Names
content: Tobey, Mark
label: Names
content: Watts, Alan, 1915-1973
label: Names
content: Weiss, Adolph, 1891-1971
topic: label: Occupation
content: Composers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Callahan, Harry M.
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: John Cage (1912-1992) was a composer and printmaker from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 55 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 May 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cage74
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of John Cage conducted 1974 May 2, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Cage speaks of his education; studying art and architecture in Europe; his paintings; his music teachers including Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, and Adolph Weiss; his lectures on modern art and music; his first wife, Xenia; teaching at the Cornish School, the Chicago Institute of Design, and Black Mountain College; taking chess lessons from Marcel Duchamp; Oriental philosophy; and "Silence," "Empty Words," and other compositions. He recalls Josef Albers, Bonnie Bird, Merce Cuningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Tobey, Alan Watts, and others.