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John Cage"Water Music Manuscript" John Cage, Composer, Music, Fluxus, Conceptual Music1952
1952
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John Cage
Water Music Manuscript, 1952
Dated "Spring 1952" lower right
Ink on paper
10 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches
Provenance
The artist
Gifted to Carolyn R. Brown, New York
Estate of the above, 2025.
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art "John Cage: Scores and Prints", February 25 - May 2 1982.
Born in Los Angeles, the innovative composer, writer, and artist John Cage was the child of an inventor and a society writer for the Los Angeles Times. His upbringing took place in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Los Angeles, with academic pursuits at Pomona College and the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied under classical composer Arnold Schoenberg. Cage encountered his lifelong partner and collaborator, choreographer Merce Cunningham, during his tenure at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. While he developed the concept of the “prepared piano,” a piano with meticulously modified strings, at Cornish, it was at Black Mountain College where he executed the first of his notable “happenings” alongside Cunningham, painter Robert Rauschenberg, and poet Charles Olson. From 1942 onward, Cage primarily resided in New York.
Drawing inspiration from Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades, Buckminster Fuller’s designs, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy, Cage composed original, nonintentional musical pieces utilizing unconventional musical sources, often incorporating chance elements through computer programs or the I Ching. PBS highlighted the ambition inherent in Cage’s 4'33", where the performer sits at a piano for four and a half minutes without producing a single note, in their American Masters series: "Cage departed from the traditional narrative of classical composition, proposing that the essence of musical performance lies not in creating music, but in the act of listening. "
- Creator:John Cage (1912-1992, American)
- Creation Year:1952
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 21.875 in (55.57 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
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