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Cage, John, 1912-1992

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1912 September 5 - 1992 August 12

Nationality

American

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

A Collage in Which Life = Death = Art / Kimmelman, Michael; Johnson R; Beuys J; Cage J; Rauschenberg R; Phillpot C., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39483-41439
Scope and Contents

This is a review of the circumstances of Johnson's death by drowning. His work was exhibited in Feigen Contemporary and a film about him, "How to Draw a Bunny," shown at the Film Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

A Flexible History of Fluxus Facts & Fictions, 2006

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Identifier: CC-46338-49062
Scope and Contents

Williams writes in his forward, "The fables - on the right-hand pages of the book - came first. Only gradually, after several exhibitions of these far-fetched fictions, did I come to realize that there was at least an iota, a jot or a tittle of truth - and sometimes a big blob of reality - in each and everyone one of them. And here, for the first time, the documentation appears opposite the collages themselves...on the left hand pages, opposite each of the cartoons, are enlightening documents from the author's personal archive relating some of the unlikely things that really happened in Performance Art 'show biz' over the years." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

An Anthology [flyer], 1963

 Item — Box 292: [Barcode: 31858072460714]
Identifier: CC-50815-71893
Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...
Dates: 1963

An Introduction to Book of the Tumbler on Fire , 1978

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Identifier: CC-23789-24237
Scope and Contents

Edited by Henry Martin. "This Sentence is Weightless," a multiple held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced on page 60. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Fine Art / Fine, Albert M.; Andersen E; Andre M; Cage J; Cleveland B; Johnson R; Pittore-Eurofico C., 1991

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Identifier: CC-12273-12497
Scope and Contents

Designed and edited by Christian Xatrec. Includes 72 facsimile postcards mailed by Albert Fine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Fluxflakpak / Hansen, Al ; Cage J ; Young L ; Higgins D ; Corner P ; Brecht G ; Ono Y ; Koepcke A., 1983

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Identifier: CC-30927-32382
Scope and Contents

Most of the photocopied material has transferred in part to the polyvinyl looseleaf inserts and cannot be removed without damage. This book documents the artistic biography of Hansen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Footnotes: Collage Journal 30 years, 2000

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Identifier: CC-34701-36404
Scope and Contents

Jerome Rothenberg contributes a pre-face in which he writes that "Footnotes, presented here, is the accounting of where Alison Knowles' feet (and hands and mind) have taken her." The pages of this book are reproductions of notebook pages dating from 1975 to 1995, inscribed and collaged by Knowles. As Knowles herself stated, "It is important to remember that we are free to make art and poetry out of anything: A loaf of bread, some beans, a hasty jotting on the train." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

George Brecht - Notebooks I- II- III, 1991

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Identifier: CC-39010-40947
Scope and Contents

These facsimile notebooks in Brecht's handwriting are studies for his performance pieces, critical writings, experimental musical scores, poem objects and chance images. One volume is a replica of Brecht's class notes from the summer of 1958 taught by John Cage. Dieter Daniels was the editor with the collaboration of Hermann Braun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Jean Brown, 82, an Art Collector Called the Den Mother of Fluxus / Smith, Roberta; Brown J; Duchamp M; Cage J; Maciunas G., 1994

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Identifier: CC-02848-2891
Scope and Contents

Obituary of Jean Brown, whose archive inspired the Sackners to focus their collection on concrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994