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Dancing around the Bride : Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp

Title: Dancing around the Bride : Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp / edited by Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle ; with essay by Calvin Tomkins ; text selection by Reinaldo Laddaga ; and chronology by Paul B. Franklin.
Publication: Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art, [2012]

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432 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This 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 Calcin Tomkins provides an insightful first-person account of his encounters with these artists at a key moment int he 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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Note

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 30, 2012-January 21, 2013, Barbican Art Gallery, London, February 14-June 9, 2013."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Timothy Rub -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Acknowledgments -- Openness and Grace / Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle -- Asking the Question / Calvin Tomkins -- I. Anthology. Introduction / Reinaldo Laddaga -- Early Reflections -- Johns and Duchamp? -- Two Diagnoses -- Artists Talk -- Debating Composers -- Into the 1970s -- Late Recollections.

Call Number

JNE 13-174

ISBN

9780876332429 (pma cloth)
0876332424 (pma cloth)
9780300189254 (yale cloth)
0300189257 (yale cloth)

LCCN

2012034858

OCLC

830201856

Title

Dancing around the Bride : Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp / edited by Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle ; with essay by Calvin Tomkins ; text selection by Reinaldo Laddaga ; and chronology by Paul B. Franklin.

Publisher

Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art, [2012]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Basualdo, Carlos, 1964- editor.

Battle, Erica F., editor.

Tomkins, Calvin, 1925- writer of added commentary.

Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Barbican Centre for Arts and Conferences.

Research Call Number

JNE 13-174

JQE 13-420

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