About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 74. Chapters: Black Mountain College alumni, Black Mountain College faculty, Black Mountain poets, Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Kenneth Noland, David Tudor, Harry Seidler, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Creeley, Lou Harrison, Ray Johnson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Ed Dorn, Cy Twombly, Willem de Kooning, Paul Blackburn, Stefan Wolpe, Larry Eigner, Roger Sessions, Mary Callery, Robert De Niro, Sr., Elaine de Kooning, Kenneth Snelson, Vera Williams, David Jacques Way, Hilda Morley, Robert Motherwell, Ruth Asawa, Harrison Begay, John Wieners, Franz Kline, John Andrew Rice, Eric Bentley, Jonathan Williams, John Chamberlain, Leslie George Katz, Jane Mayhall, Joel Oppenheimer, Ilya Bolotowsky, Erik Christian Haugaard, Susan Weil, Irwin Kremen, Stan Vanderbeek, Concetta Scaravaglione, Dorothea Rockburne, Peter Nemenyi, Michael Rumaker, Fielding Dawson, M. C. Richards. Excerpt: John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992) was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of aleatoric music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives. Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4 33, the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played. The content of the composition is meant to be perceived as the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, rather than merely...
