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Through The Looking Glass

By Brown

Through The Looking Glass

By Brown

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Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde and experimental filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience for the overall aesthetic surrounding Cage's career. As the commercially dominant media form in the twentieth century, cinema transformed the way listeners were introduced to and consumed music. Cage's quest to redefine music, intentionality, and expression reflect the similar transformation of music within the larger audiovisual experience of sound film. This volume examines key moments in Cage's career where cinema either informed or transformed his position on the nature of sound, music, expression, and the ontology of the musical artwork. The examples point to moments of rupture within Cage's own consideration of the musical artwork, pointing to newfound collision points that have a significant and heretofore unacknowledged role in Cage's notions of the audiovisual experience and the medium-specific ontology of a work of art.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
252
Release Date:
2019-01-02
Publication Date:
2019-06-14
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190628073
ISBN13:
9780190628079
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Weight:
546 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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