An Anthology
Object number1978.0112
TitleAn Anthology
Creator La Monte Young (vervaardiger en uitgever), George Brecht (vervaardiger), Jackson Mac Low (uitgever)
DescriptionAn Anthology, bevat ook twee ingeplakte enveloppen, een los inlegblad, enkele uitvouwpagina's. Voorin signatuur van medeuitgever Jackson Mac Low.
Met bijdragen van: George Brecht, Claus Bremer, Earle Brown, Joseph Byrd, John Cage, David Degener, Walter De Maria, Henry Flynt, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Dennis, Ding Dong, Ray Johnson, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Maxfield, Robert Morris, Simone Morris, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, James Waring, Emmett Williams, Christian Wolff and La Monte Young.
In 1961, as a special issue of the West Coast magazine Beatitude West, composer La Monte Young and poet Jackson Mac Low gathered together a number of scores, scripts for Fluxus events and experimental dance pieces, essays, and poetry. The collection was published in 1963, under the title An Anthology, and was republished, in a slightly expanded form in 1971. This work became extremely influential, as it publicized and generalized the interdisciplinary collaboration of artists working across media of visual arts, film, music, literature, dance, and theater, with their work converging not only in common performances in certain gallery spaces and venues, but also in a new interest in scripts and scores requiring substantial interpretation and choice from the performers. Although its genesis was only partially connected to the influence of John Cage, An Anthology can nevertheless be legitimately seen as significant evidence of the generalized impact of Cage’s aesthetic on the art world, and not just on composers.
The book itself is designed as a sort of montage work, not only insofar as it juxtaposes work in different media by a range of artists, but also materially: it uses a number of non-standard typographical formats, incorporates colored construction paper pages and folded inserts, and even contains envelopes holding further formats such as note cards (as in Composition 1960 #9 by La Monte Young, an event score composition). The suggestion is both whimsical and multidimensional, making the book appealing surprising to page through, when one suddenly comes across an unexpected insert or fold-out or enigmatically formatted page. In one sense, the work is a paradigmatic, early example of conceptual art.
https://crosspollenblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/59/
Met bijdragen van: George Brecht, Claus Bremer, Earle Brown, Joseph Byrd, John Cage, David Degener, Walter De Maria, Henry Flynt, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Dennis, Ding Dong, Ray Johnson, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Maxfield, Robert Morris, Simone Morris, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, James Waring, Emmett Williams, Christian Wolff and La Monte Young.
In 1961, as a special issue of the West Coast magazine Beatitude West, composer La Monte Young and poet Jackson Mac Low gathered together a number of scores, scripts for Fluxus events and experimental dance pieces, essays, and poetry. The collection was published in 1963, under the title An Anthology, and was republished, in a slightly expanded form in 1971. This work became extremely influential, as it publicized and generalized the interdisciplinary collaboration of artists working across media of visual arts, film, music, literature, dance, and theater, with their work converging not only in common performances in certain gallery spaces and venues, but also in a new interest in scripts and scores requiring substantial interpretation and choice from the performers. Although its genesis was only partially connected to the influence of John Cage, An Anthology can nevertheless be legitimately seen as significant evidence of the generalized impact of Cage’s aesthetic on the art world, and not just on composers.
The book itself is designed as a sort of montage work, not only insofar as it juxtaposes work in different media by a range of artists, but also materially: it uses a number of non-standard typographical formats, incorporates colored construction paper pages and folded inserts, and even contains envelopes holding further formats such as note cards (as in Composition 1960 #9 by La Monte Young, an event score composition). The suggestion is both whimsical and multidimensional, making the book appealing surprising to page through, when one suddenly comes across an unexpected insert or fold-out or enigmatically formatted page. In one sense, the work is a paradigmatic, early example of conceptual art.
https://crosspollenblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/59/
Production date 1963
Production period20e eeuw
Object namekunstenaarsboeken
Object categorykunstenaarsboeken
Materialdrukinkt, drukpapier
Techniqueoffsetdrukken
Dimensions
- breedte: 19.7 cm
lengte: 22.5 cm
pagina-aantal: 134