Every day is a good day
Subtitle: the visual art of John Cage
By: [exhibition conceived by Jeremy Millar]
Contributors: Millar, Jeremy; Hayward Gallery; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art; John Cage Trust; Hayward Touring (Art organisation)
Publisher: Hayward Publishing; Distributed in North America by D.A.P.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781853322839
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Exhibitions; American Arts; Modern Arts
Other titles: Visual art of John Cage; John Cage, every day is a good day
Description: One of the twentieth century's most influential and iconoclastic protagonists, John Cage (1912-1992) may be described not so much as a composer, artist and author, as a thinker who applied his ideas equivalently to sound, visual art and writing. As with his music, the use of chance operations--in particular via the Chinese Book of Changes, or I Ching--was central to Cage's approach to visual art, determining technique, the placement of forms and even tonal values. Every Day is a Good Day provides the first broad assessment of Cage's art, and is fully illustrated with plates of his drawings, watercolors and prints, including series such as Where R=Ryoanji (1983-92). Cage's working methods and philosophies are brought to light in new interviews with key collaborators: printmaker and writer Kathan Brown, founder of Crown Point Press; Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust; artist Ray Kass; and Julie Lazar, curator of Cage's composition for a museum, Rolywholyover: A Circus. Extracts from a 1966 interview between John Cage and critic Irving Sandler are also reproduced. At the heart of the book is a "Companion to John Cage," a selection of quotes by Cage and notes on key themes and influences, all of which make it essential reading on this important figure of the twentieth-century avant garde.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day, a Hayward Touring exhibition organised in collaboration with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and the John Cage Trust"--Verso of t.p.

Exhibition held at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead), Kettle's Yard (Cambridge), Huddersfield Art Gallery, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery (Glasgow), and De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill on Sea), June 2010-June 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Roger Malbert; title: Not wanting to say anything about John Cage / Jeremy Millar; title: Cage at Crown Point Press : an interview with Kathan Brown; title: Mountains and rivers : an interview with Ray Kass; title: How to improve the world : an interview with Laura Kuhn; title: Rolywholyover, a circus : an interview with Julie Lazar; title: To open our eyes / Irving Sandler; title: Companion to Cage / Helen Luckett and Lauren A. Wright; title: Plates / notes by Kathan Brown and Helen Luckett.