Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp (Philadelphia Museum of Art) (Philadelphia Museum Of Art (Yale)) - Hardcover

Basualdo, Carlos; Battle, Erica F.; Tomkins, Calvin; Laddaga, Reinaldo; Franklin, Paul B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300189257 ISBN 13: 9780300189254

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2013

Synopsis

An examination of the interwoven lives and works of Duchamp and four of America's most important postwar artists This fascinating book explores the interwoven lives, radical art, and shared experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp and four of America's most important postwar artists: composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. The publication traces the relationships among all five of these artists by mapping their intersections and examining the depth of their artistic exchanges. At the heart of the publication is an anthology of key texts from selected interviews, magazine articles, and book excerpts, by scholars, critics, and the artists themselves, that together narrate the younger generation's first connections to Duchamp and his work, which would profoundly redefine his legacy as well as the entire field of contemporary art. A new text by Calvin Tomkins provides an insightful first-person account of his encounters with these artists at a key moment in the 1960s. The book also includes the first extensive chronology that recounts the lives, art, and common projects of this influential group of artists.

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HardCover. Pub Date :2013-01-08 Pages: 432 Language: English Publisher: Yale University Press This fascinating book explores the interwoven lives. radical art. and shared experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp and four of Americas most important postwar artists: composer John Cage. choreographer Merce Cunningham. and visual artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. The publication traces the relationships among all five of these artists by mapping their intersections and examining the depth of their artistic exchanges.At the heart of the publication is an anthology of key texts from selected interviews. magazine articles. and book excerpts. by scholars. critics. and the artists themselves. that together narrate the younger generations first connections to Duchamp and his work. which would profoundly redefine his legacy as well as the entire field of contemporary art. A ne...

Review:

"among the greatest written explications of the American midcentury avant-garde anywhere."--The Buffalo News --The Buffalo News

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300189257
• ISBN 13: 9780300189254
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270